featherless
Adjective
Meaning
Destitute of feathers.
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Examples
a featherless biped
the unfeathered legs of an Orpington
Eggs and nests The chicks of passerines are altricial : blind, featherless, and helpless when hatched from their eggs.
In popular culture main 2003 restoration by Raúl Martín showing a featherless Velociraptor battling Protoceratops.
Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park were released before this discovery, so the creatures in both films are depicted as featherless with scales all over in the manner of modern reptiles.
To more efficiently transfer heat to eggs, the abdominal brood patch becomes featherless and thickened with fluid when females are incubating, but as the young mature it dries out and remains featherless.