tail feather

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   feather growing from the tail (uropygium) of a bird

   Broaderflight feather

   Narrowersickle feather

Questions about tail feather

What does tail feather mean?

tail feather means "feather growing from the tail (uropygium) of a bird".

Is tail feather a common word?

tail feather is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.