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
Ovary is glabrous with two styles ending in plumose stigmas.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Citrate: antennae with very long, curled lateral branches which may or may not be ciliated; see plumose.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
Adiantum Farleyense.—This beautiful Maidenhair is supposed to be a subfertile, plumose form of A. tenerum, which much resembles it, especially in a young state.
From Garden and Forest Weekly, Volume 1 No. 1, February 29, 1888 by Various
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
