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

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

Styles are free with plumose stigmas, laterally exserted.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Barbellate, said of the bristles of the pappus of some Composit� when beset with short, stiff hairs, longer than when denticulate, but shorter than when plumose.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

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