quill has definitions from the field of zoology
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[ noun ] pen made from a bird's feather

Synonyms

quill_pen

Used in print

(Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)

his quill drawings had a scratchiness , suggesting skin texture ; the clay he used plastically to suggest soft moving flesh , as in an abdomen , in a reclining torso ; the wax he smoothed_over to give the body surface an elastic pull .

Related terms

pen

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[ noun ] (zoology) a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog

Related terms

spine porcupine hedgehog

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 16040
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[ noun ] (zoology) any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
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[ noun ] (zoology) the hollow shaft of a feather

Synonyms

shaft calamus

Related terms

rib feather

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