plumose
Americanadjective
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having feathers or plumes; feathered.
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feathery or plumelike.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of plumose
From the Latin word plūmōsus, dating back to 1720–30. See plume, -ose 1
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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
Many crystals of sulphate of iron lie at the bottom of the cliff, and several layers of plumose alum, half an inch thick, occur in the strata.
From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin
Mr. Hemsley adds, that this substance proves to be the plumose seeds of a poplar or willow.
From Darwinism (1889) by Alfred Russel Wallace
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 Asa Gray
It has oblong-oval floating leaves 4–6´´ long, closely pinnately-veined, which bear conceptacles and branching plumose fibres on their under surface.
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 Asa Gray
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