plumose

American  

[ploo-mohs] / ˈplu moʊs /

adjective

1. having feathers or plumes; feathered.

2. feathery or plumelike.

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plumose British  

/ ˈpluːməʊs, -məʊz, pluːˈmɒsɪtɪ /

adjective

1. another word for plumate

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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

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

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 Gray, Asa

Achenes spindle-shaped, striate, all alike; pappus persistent, composed of plumose bristles which are enlarged and flattened toward the base.—Low and stemless perennials, with toothed or pinnatifid root-leaves, and scapes bearing one or more yellow heads.

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

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 Darwin, Charles