featherlike
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Fossils show that many dinosaurs and flying pterosaurs sported feather and featherlike body coverings.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 30, 2022
There has also been some academic debate about whether pterosaur fuzz represents true feathers or featherlike pycnofibers.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 20, 2022
Jingmai O’Connor, a paleontologist from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, cautioned that it was difficult to interpret feathers and featherlike structures from flattened fossils.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2018
That discovery prompted British and Chinese scientists to examine fossils of dinosaurs that are covered with featherlike structures.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2010
She was making her final knots behind me when I felt a vague, featherlike touch on my shoulder, almost insensible through the nahlrout that numbed me.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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