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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 plum·age /ˈplumɪʤ/
 鳥類羽毛,翅膀

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Plum·age n.  Zool. The entire clothing of a bird.
 Note:It consist of the contour feathers, or the ordinary feathers covering the head, neck, and body; the tail feathers, with their upper and lower coverts; the wing feathers, including primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, with their coverts; and the down which lies beneath the contour feathers. See Illust. under Bird.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 plumage
      n : the light horny waterproof structure forming the external
          covering of birds [syn: feather, plume]