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
Antennæ black, third joint linear, rather long, arista plumose; legs blackish-piceous; wings blackish; veins black, discal transverse vein straight, parted by a little more than its length from the border.
From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various
The CRINOID, named from its resemblance to the lily, is like the cystoid in many respects, but has a longer stem and supports a crown of plumose arms.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
Styles are free with plumose stigmas, laterally exserted.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
The pistil consists of an ovary and two styles ending in plumose stigmas.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
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