plumose
Americanadjective
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having feathers or plumes; feathered.
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feathery or plumelike.
adjective
Other Word Forms
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
The styles are slender and distinct with plumose stigmas exserted at the top of the spikelet.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Flowers purple 8 Pappus of very plumose bristles.
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
Styles are free and long with plumose stigmas.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
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 Charles Darwin
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