Usually means: Feather-bearing patches on birds.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. pteryla: Merriam-Webster
  2. pteryla: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. pteryla: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pteryla: Wordnik
  5. pteryla: Wiktionary
  6. pteryla: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. pteryla: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Pteryla, pteryla: Dictionary.com
  9. Pteryla: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. pteryla: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Pteryla: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. pteryla: FreeDictionary.org
  13. pteryla: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. pteryla: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. pteryla: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

(Note: See pterylae as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pteryla)

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

Similar:
pterylosis, apteryla, ptilosis, uropygium, pterolysis, feather, apterium, flight feather, tertial, secondary, more...

Opposite:
aptery, featherless area

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Similar:
pterylosis, apteryla, ptilosis, uropygium, pterolysis, feather, apterium, flight feather, tertial, secondary, more...

Opposite:
aptery, featherless area



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