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

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 Smith, John. B.

Achenes spindle-shaped, striate, all alike; pappus persistent, composed of plumose bristles which are enlarged and flattened toward the base.—Low and stemless perennials, with toothed or pinnatifid root-leaves, and scapes bearing one or more yellow heads.

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

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

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