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
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
Achenes oblong, flattish, not ribbed; pappus of numerous bristles united into a ring at the base, plumose to the middle, deciduous.—Herbs, mostly biennial, with sessile alternate leaves, often pinnatifid, prickly.
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
In the immense class of insects the sexes sometimes differ in their organs for locomotion, and often in their sense-organs, as in the pectinated and beautifully plumose antennæ of the males of many species.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Charles Darwin
Styles are free with plumose stigmas, laterally exserted.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
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