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

Styles are distinct with plumose stigmas exserted laterally near the apex of the spikelet.

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

Mr. Hemsley adds, that this substance proves to be the plumose seeds of a poplar or willow.

From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel

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 Darwin, Charles

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.