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
Stamens and carpels numerous, styles becoming plumose or hairy tails, or naked and straight or jointed. b.
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
The terminal segments of all the rami, bearing the long plumose spines, are directed backwards.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Styles are free and long with plumose stigmas.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Many crystals of sulphate of iron lie at the bottom of the cliff, and several layers of plumose alum, half an inch thick, occur in the strata.
From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin
