plumose
Americanadjective
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having feathers or plumes; feathered.
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feathery or plumelike.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- plumosely adverb
- plumoseness noun
- plumosity noun
Etymology
Origin of plumose
From the Latin word plūmōsus, dating back to 1720–30. See plume, -ose 1
Example Sentences
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An upbeat grandmotherly woman with a plumose crown of lovely white hair, Sister Barbara calmly invited me to sit down across from her and asked me to tell her what had brought me there.
From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2011
Flowers perfect; inner perianth of three yellow petals; perfect stamens and plumose sterile filaments each 3; pod 1-celled, many-seeded on 3 parietal placentæ.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Stamens and carpels numerous, styles becoming plumose or hairy tails, or naked and straight or jointed. b.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
These spines are often doubly serrated or plumose: many of them on the protuberant segments of the first three pair of cirri, are sometimes coarsely and doubly pectinated.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
The entire plant is hairy, and when mature its seed head is plumose and white, similar to the clematis head, suggesting the head of a very old man with long white hair.
From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by Helleberg, C. G. (Carl Gustaf)
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