pennaceous
/pɛˈneɪʃəs/ /pəˈneɪʃəs/Chiefly Ornithology
adjective
Relating to, of the nature of, or resembling a feather or feathers; (in later use) specifically designating (part of) a feather in which the barbs form a coherent vane (contrasted with downy or plumulaceous).
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in James Francis Stephens (1792–1852), entomologist. From scientific Latin pennaceus + -ous.
- non-attendance
- non-attender
- non-attributable
- non-attributably
- non-automatic
- non-availability
- non-avian
- nonbacterial
- nonbank
- non-barbiturate
- non-baryonic
- non-basic
- non-being
- non-belief
- non-believer
- non-believing
- non-belligerence
- non-belligerent
- non-binary
- non-biodegradable
- non-biological
- non-biologically
- flatboat
- flat-bottomed
- flatbread