rectrix's Usage Examples:

while those on the tail are called rectrices (/rɛkˈtraɪsiːs/), singular rectrix (/ˈrɛktrɪks/).

They have wide tails with fourteen rectrix feathers.

For a time she served as both abbess and rectrix.

The primaries and rectrix tips are white.

centuries of stability followed, during which Italy was referred to as the rectrix mundi (queen of the world) and omnium terrarum parens (motherland of all.

The typical "notched" shape of the second rectrix (R2) is considered an important field mark to distinguish the adult male.

university in Germany is called a president, rector magnificus (men) or rectrix magnifica (women), as in some Belgian universities.

The hair of a rabbit can be divided into three types: "longer, rectrix guard hairs, stiff at the base; the more numerous tectrix barbed hairs.

little or no white edging on the tertials and less white on the fourth rectrix of the tail.

The underside of the tail is dark, but each rectrix is broadly tipped with white.

The lack of a notch in the second rectrix (R2) is considered an important field mark to distinguish the adult male.

The white tips of outermost rectrix are 50 mm long, next 55mm, and next 32 mm long.