aftershaft

Noun

Open English WordNet

Noun (1)

  1. a supplementary feather (usually small) on the underside of the base of the shaft of some feathers in some birdsType of plume, plumage
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Aft′er·shaft′ (…), noun

Zoology The hypoptilum.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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