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
In the immense class of insects the sexes sometimes differ in their organs for locomotion, and often in their sense-organs, as in the pectinated and beautifully plumose antennæ of the males of many species.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Charles Darwin
All the spines are of excessive tenuity and sharpness; they are straight, long, and not plumose.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Achenes terete, with 5–10 rugose ribs; pappus of 1 or 2 rows of plumose bristles.—Coarse rough-bristly annuals or biennials, with yellow flowers.
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
I could not perceive that they were plumose, as in many other genera.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
