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adjective

Plumous, Plumose adj.

Having feathers or plumes.

Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles.

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Etymology of 'Plumose'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Plumose" Quotes from Famous Books

... knurly^; asperous^, crisp, salebrous^, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth^, roughhewn^; craggy, cragged; crankling^, scraggy; prickly &c (sharp) 253; arborescent &c 242 [Obs.]; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous^; laciniate^, laciniform^, laciniose^; pappose^; pileous^, pilose^; trichogenous^, trichoid [Med.]; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose^, crinite^; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous^, bearded, pilous^, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed^; setous^, ...

— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... Plumose: feathered; like a plume: antennae that have long ciliated processes on each side of each joint: ...

— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith