GRE Word List

PREEN

to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland

The meaning of the word preen is to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland.

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