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# featherless

adjective (featherless)

«featherless» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «featherless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/featherless/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«featherless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/featherless.html) on Mova free.