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saddle hackle

NOUN
  1. a long narrow feather on the back (saddle) of a domestic fowl

How To Use saddle hackle In A Sentence

  • The feathers in the tail were seven pairs of rectrices, two rows of tail coverts, anterior and posterior, four or five pairs in each row, a number of transition feathers: all these were steel-blue, almost black; in front of them on the saddle were a number of reddish yellow, very slender saddle hackles. Hormones and Heredity
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