Crossword-Solution: PENNAE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Pennae | pl. | of Penna |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| PENNAE | anagram | NEPEAN |
We have 3 clues for the answer “PENNAE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Contour feathers | 1 answer |
| Contour feathers: Zool. | 1 answer |
| CONTOUR ___ | 22 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
EEN
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PENNAE (4)
Suffice it to say that the list includes every carrion-feeder among flesh and fowl who assemble in immense flocks: "Nunquam tanto se vulture caelum _Induit_, aut plures _presserunt_ aethere pennae." We have, however, dwelt too long on points like these.
And the palaeographer knows that any scratch or scribbling, any _probatio pennae_ or casual entry, may become important in tracing the wanderings of a manuscript.
Compare as well _Met_ V 294-98 'Musa loquebatur: pennae sonuere per auras, / uoxque salutantum ramis ueniebat ab altis.
The down feathers which appear at hatching-time are known as _pre-pennae_, or _pre-plumulae_, as the case may be; the first generation of pre-pennae, in the case of the tawny owl for example, is made up of _protoptyles_, while the succeeding plumage is made up of _mesoptyles_, and these in turn give place to the _teleoptyles_ or adult feathers.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1958–2012).