Definition of "featherless" [feath•er•less]

• Having no feathers. (adjective)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "After all, the defining human characteristic is not compassion or the ability to walk upright or our vague mistrust of the Prudential lady or even the notion that we are featherless bipeds possessing a soul."
• "And the chickens, featherless but indomitable, were enjoying the milder weather as they pecked at the grain and grits which the steward had just placed in their feeding-trough."
• "Go buy an art poster if you must, but don't encourage the abuse of featherless battery hens that pop out countless empty blobs of colored mud parading as art."