plumose

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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

Flowers perfect; inner perianth of three yellow petals; perfect stamens and plumose sterile filaments each 3; pod 1-celled, many-seeded on 3 parietal placentæ.

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

Mr. Hemsley adds, that this substance proves to be the plumose seeds of a poplar or willow.

From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel

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 Gray, Asa

I could not perceive that they were plumose, as in many other genera.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles