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# featherless

«featherless» in Mova's school dictionary: **having no feathers** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (featherless)

### meaning for a pupil

Featherless means having no feathers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/featherless/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, newly hatched chicks of many birds are featherless and helpless; birds that moult can have featherless patches. In stories it describes a baby bird or a plucked chicken. Phrases: «featherless chicks», «a featherless patch».

### examples

- The baby birds were pink and featherless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/featherless/#x1)
- Featherless chicks need their parents to keep them warm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/featherless/#x2)
- The bird had a featherless patch on its neck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/featherless/#x3)
- A featherless bird cannot fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/featherless/#x4)
- Vultures have featherless heads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/featherless/#x5)
- The chick was blind and featherless when it hatched. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/featherless/#x6)

### note

«-less» means without: featherless = without feathers (like «hairless», «toothless», «homeless»). Opposite: «feathered», «feathery». Not a number word.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «featherless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/featherless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.