Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having feathers or featherlike growths; feathered.
- adjective Resembling a plume; feathery.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Feathery: plumous; resembling a feather, as something light, airy, and spray-like.
- Feathered; plumed or plumaged; provided with plumes or feathers.
- In botany, feathery or feathered: specifically noting bristles, etc., which have fine hairs on opposite sides like the vane of a feather. A plumose pappus is one composed of feathery hairs. See fig. b under pappus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having feathers or plumes.
- adjective Having hairs, or other párts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
feathers orplumes . - adjective Having
hairs , or other parts, arranged along anaxis like a feather;feathery ;plumelike ; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The pilings are covered with plumose anemones, invertebrate filter feeders.
Field & Stream 2010
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Both features help pollen grains adhere to their bodies, but they also have specialized pollen-carrying structures; in most bees, this takes the form of a structure known as the scopa, which is on the hind legs of most bees, and/or the lower abdomen (e.g., of megachilid bees), made up of thick, plumose setae.
Pollinator Wikipedia 2009
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The granite's granophyric groundmass consists of intergrown quartz and potassium feldspar (~Or45), the latter consisting of plumose splays that nucleated directly from pre-existing phenocrysts.
Granophyre.html 1998
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One of our agents copied the letter before it was sent and it reads, "le sept plumose, Van six de la Republique Frangaise."
Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997
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The terminal position of the inflorescence, its protrusion far above the level of the foliage leaves, the swinging and dangling anthers, the abundance of non-sticking pollen and the plumose stigmas are all intended to facilitate pollination by wind.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The styles are slender and distinct with plumose stigmas exserted at the top of the spikelet.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Citrate: antennae with very long, curled lateral branches which may or may not be ciliated; see plumose.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Styles are short, with plumose stigmas and laterally exserted.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Ovary is glabrous with two styles ending in plumose stigmas.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Styles are free with plumose stigmas, laterally exserted.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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