| 20 answers for: Feather or wing |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| PINNA | Feather or wing |
| PINNAE | Bird feathers or wings (6) |
| PLUME | A downy aigrette, marabou or other large, ornamental or showy feather; or, something reminiscent of said panache, such as a cloud/wisp of smoke, a T-shaped white moth or a pappus of a dandelion clock |
| PLUCK | A short sharp pull of an eyebrow, fowl's feather or fruit from a tree; a strum or twang of a musical string; or, the heart, liver and lungs of an animal, hence courage, guts, heart or spirit (5) |
| EYESPOT | Type of marking on a peacock's tail feather or on the wing of a butterfly such as gatekeeper, meadow brown, speckled wood or cabbage white (7) |
| RACHIS | An axis or shaft of a feather; or, the spine or vertebral column (6) |
| SHARD | Archaically, a boundary water; dialectically, a gap; vernacularly, a broken piece, crock or scrap of pottery; or, zoologically, from a misunderstanding of Shakespeare, a beetle's elytron or wing case |
| IRIDESCENT | Description of an object with a play of lustrous rainbow colours, such as a soap bubble, mother-of-pearl-lined shell, peacock's feather or butterfly's wing (10) |
| VANE | Another word for a weathercock; a vexillum of a feather; or. a sight on a quadrant or azimuth compass (4) |
| QUILL | Large feather, or porcupine spine (5) |
| PLUCKED | Pulled feather - or eyebrows - out! (7) |
| COCKADE | Feather or ribbon on military headwear |
| DRAGON | Known collectively as a flight, thunder or wing, mythical creature found in a bestiary or in its red form on the national flag of Wales (6) |
| DELTA | Kind of ray or wing |
| UNIT | Squadron or wing |
| SHOE | Wedge or wing tip |
| LIMB | Arm, leg or wing (4) |
| MAN | Ice or wing follower |
| FORELIMB | Flipper or wing, e.g. |
| SPAN | Word that can follow life or wing |
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