filoplume

filoplume
/fil"euh ploohm', fuy"leuh-/, n. Ornith.
a specialized, hairlike feather having a slender shaft with few or no barbs.
[1880-85; < NL filopluma, equiv. to L fil(um) a thread + -o- -O- + pluma PLUME]

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