Area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.
A covering.
A disguise.
A feather that covers the bases of flight feathers.
A hiding place.
Under coverture.
Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
Synonym of plumule (“the first bud, or growing point, of a plant embryo, situated above the cotyledons”)
In the obsolete theory of pangenesis propounded by the English scientist Charles Darwin (1809–1882): a hypothetical particle once thought to be the basis of heredity.
Synonym of dendritic spine (“a small membranous protrusion from the dendrite of a neuron that typically receives input from a single axon at the synapse”)