All calamus synonyms

noun calamus

• plume — a feather.
• fringe — a decorative border of thread, cord, or the like, usually hanging loosely from a raveled edge or separate strip.
• shaft — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
• fluff — light, downy particles, as of cotton.
• crest — The crest of a hill or a wave is the top of it.
• down — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
• spike — an ear, as of wheat or other grain.
• fin — Slang. a five-dollar bill.
• wing — either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
• pompon — pompom2 (def 1).
• pinna — Botany. one of the primary divisions of a pinnate leaf.
• plumule — Botany. the bud of the ascending axis of a plant while still in the embryo.
• quill — one of the large feathers of the wing or tail of a bird.
• pinion — the distal or terminal segment of the wing of a bird consisting of the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges.
• plumage — the entire feathery covering of a bird.
• feather — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
• penna — a contour feather, as distinguished from a down feather, plume, etc.