Usually means: Feather-bearing tracts on birds.
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  1. pterylae: Merriam-Webster
  2. pterylae: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pterylae: Wiktionary
  4. Pterylae, pterylae: Dictionary.com
  5. Pterylae: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. Pterylae: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. pterylae: FreeDictionary.org
  8. pterylae: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pterylae: Encyclopedia

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  1. pterylae: Medical dictionary

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noun:  (ornithology) One of the areas of a bird's skin on which feathers grow.
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