Plumage

Quick meaning: Plumage is a noun meaning (ornithology, collective noun) Layer or collection of feathers covering a bird’s body; feathers used ornamentally; feathering.

Meaning

(ornithology, collective noun) Layer or collection of feathers covering a bird’s body; feathers used ornamentally; feathering.

More Meanings

1. Finery or elaborate dress.

Example Sentences

[Owner]: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage! [Mr. Praline]: The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.

In some few cases the young in their first plumage differ from each other according to sex; the young males resembling more or less closely the adult males, and the young females more or less closely the adult females.

Somewhat like a heron she was, but stouter, and shorter of leg, and her beak shorter and thicker than the heron’s; and so long and delicate was her pale gray plumage that hard it was to say whether it were hair or feathers.

Word Forms

• plumages

Synonyms for plumage

Depending on context, synonyms include pennage, plume, feather.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plume, feather, juvenal, archer, adult, badminton.

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