The short, hollow, tubular, unpigmented end of the mature feather inserted into the feather follicle and thus present below the skin level. [ https://en.wikivet.net/Feather_-_Anatomy_%26_Physiology ]
This is just here as a test because I lose it
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Subclass of:
- organ part
- ectoderm-derived structure
- part of some feather shaft
- overlaps some feather follicle placode