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filoplume

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fil⋅o⋅plume

  [fil-uh-ploom, fahy-luh-]
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–noun Ornithology.
a specialized, hairlike feather having a slender shaft with few or no barbs.
Origin:
1880–85; < NL filopluma, equiv. to L fīl(um) a thread + -o- -o- + plūma plume
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fil·o·plume   (fĭl'ə-plōōm', fī'lə-)   
n.  A hairlike feather having few or no barbs, usually located between contour feathers.

[Latin fīlum, thread; see gwhī- in Indo-European roots + plume.]
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