well-fledged
/ˌwɛlˈflɛdʒd/adjective
Fully covered in feathers; specifically (of a bird) having feathers and wing muscles sufficiently developed for flight; able to leave the nest; (figurative ) well-developed, well-established. Also of an arrow: = well-fletched.
Origin
Mid 17th century; earliest use found in Robert Baron (bap. 1630, d. 1658), poet and playwright. From well + fledged.
- practiced
- practice makes perfect
- practice note
- practice pad
- practice range
- practice tee
- practice wicket
- practician
- practicism
- practico-inert
- practicum
- practisable
- practise
- practised
- practiser
- practise what one preaches
- practitional
- practitioner
- practolol
- prad
- pradakshina
- pradaksina
- Prader–Willi syndrome
- pradhan
- Prado