Sentence examples for type of feather from inspiring English sources

But it's also to give it a different type of feather, other colours.

With years of experience, the investigators have a clear idea almost instantly what type of feather they are looking at.

The odd and rather buck-toothed little dinosaur Epidexipteryx has an unusual type of feather not really seen in any other animal, suggesting perhaps a unique adaptation in this lineage.

Some birds, in which the gland is small or absent, have a specialized type of feather (powder down) that grows continuously and breaks down into a fine powder, believed to be used in dressing the plumage.

To confirm the type of feather, we also fixed some whole single follicles in 4% paraformaldehyde at 4 °C for sectioning (supplementary fig. S2, Supplementary Material online).

These observations suggest that the expression patterns of α-keratin genes in the same type of feather are conserved and may not contribute significantly to structural and morphological variations at different developmental stages.

Cu translates as "to kick", whereas ju is a type of feather-filled leather ball.

It was the type of feather-light quip uttered by untold movie stars on untold red carpets over the years, but this time it had extra resonance, because New York seems ready for Mr. Nagra and his fellow Indian actors.

All described specimens of Sinosauropteryx preserve integumentary structures (filaments arising from the skin) which most palaeontologists interpret as very primitive type of feathers.

To assess whether feather composition could be linked to specific oceanic areas, we used classificatory discriminant analyses (SPSS 2003) on the composition of both type of feathers in relation the breeding and wintering areas.

Then, using transcriptomic analysis, we studied α- and β-keratin gene expression patterns in five types of feather epidermis.