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

Ovary is glabrous with two styles ending in plumose stigmas.

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

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 Franklin, John

Aug.—Glumes of the pistillate flowers more rigid and almost keeled; stigmas very long, plumose; the staminate glumes smaller and somewhat rounded on the back.

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

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