Sentence examples for major feather from inspiring English sources

It would be a major feather in her cap if she can succeed where previous public editors have failed and shame the organization into realizing how this practice harms its credibility.

That's far from a confirmation that Tinhte has ruffled some major feathers, but it's something to consider.

Major flight feathers of most species are lost gradually and in sequence so that flight is not impaired.

The major contour feathers of the wing (remiges) and tail (rectrices) and their coverts function in flight.

Mammals chew the major flight feathers off and leave ragged quills, and a sniff of the corpse often betrays a fox as the murderer.

The epithelium and the mesenchyme are two major components in feather follicles [ 16– 16].

The animals and plants were collected from various sites across the UK using hand searching (zebra mussels, killer shrimp, bloody-red mysid, signal crayfish) or from UK retailers of aquatic pond plants where it was unfeasible to collect wild specimens (Lagarosiphon major, parrot's feather, New Zealand pigmyweed, curly water thyme).

Keratin, the major protein in feathers, is a highly crosslinked biopolymer that has been reported to be biocompatible.

The major components of feathers are α- and β-keratins, which are encoded by multigene families (Alibardi and Toni 2008).

The identification of KRT75, encoding a Type II cytokeratin (basic), as a major determinant of normal feather structure suggests that α-keratins are critical for feather shaping (Ng et al. 2012).

Bird (class Aves), any of the more than 10,400 living species unique in having feathers, the major characteristic that distinguishes them from all other animals.