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 small; third joint elongate-conical, not extending more than half the length to the epistoma; arista plumose.
From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various
Flowers purple 8 Pappus of very plumose bristles.
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
It has oblong-oval floating leaves 4–6´´ long, closely pinnately-veined, which bear conceptacles and branching plumose fibres on their under surface.
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
Styles persistent and elongated after anthesis, often plumose or jointed.
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
