单词 | plumigerous |
释义 | plumigerousadj. rare. That has or wears plumes or feathers; (also) relating to the wearing of plumes. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > feather > [adjective] featheredc1300 penneda1398 well-feathered1525 well-plumed1575 plumy1590 feathery1637 well-fledged1650 pennigerous1656 plumigerous1656 penniferous1722 flighted1735 plumaged1777 fledgy1818 plumulose1826 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing parts of clothing purfledc1400 weltedc1507 blue1600 buttoned1604 cockaded1713 epauletted1810 shoulder-knotted1812 plumigerous1827 white-favoured1847 buttony1848 scale-shouldered1849 pointed1904 whaleboned1908 ruffly1909 ruched1923 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Plumigerous, that beareth feathers. 1788 J. Seally Lady's Encycl. II. 311 The air is peopled with..plumigerous inhabitants. 1827 S. Smith Wks. (1850) 475 Military colleges, with thirty-four professors, educating seventeen ensigns per annum,..with every species of nonsense, athletic, sartorial, and plumigerous. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvii. 151 The various piligerous, plumigerous, pennigerous and squamigerous animals. 1942 Classical Philol. 37 192 Ciris was fully justified in calling her relations ‘plumigerous’, because not only Progne..but also Philomela and Tereus had been changed into birds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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