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”)
A moth of the genus Lithophane.
The smallest gear in a gear train.
Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
A wing.
To restrain; to limit.
To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding.