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Definition of Plumose
1. Adjective. Having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft.
Category relationships: Biological Science, Biology
Similar to: Feathered
Definition of Plumose
1. a. Having feathers or plumes.
Definition of Plumose
1. Adjective. Having feathers or plumes. ¹
2. Adjective. Having hairs, or other párts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plumose
1. having feathers [adj]
Medical Definition of Plumose
1. Like a feather, with fine hairs branching from a central main stem. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plumose
Literary usage of Plumose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Henrik Krøyer's Publications on Pelagic Marine Copepoda (1838-1849) by Carl C. Damkaer, David M. Damkaer (1979)
"The palps have a pair of long plumose setae at the end and five or six along the
inner edge. The remaining three plates must be regarded as constituting a ..."
2. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"Pappus consisting of bristles, the bristles (or some of them) plumose. ... B.
Pappus of fine soft capillary bristles, scabrous but never plumose ; achenes ..."
3. A System of Mineralogy: In which Minerals are Arranged According to the by Robert Jameson (1820)
"plumose Antimoni»! • Jameson's Mineralogy of Dumfriesshire, p. 74. Î Bruce'»
American Mineralogica! Journal, p. 125. ..."
4. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"with 5 broad ribs and little or no beak: pappus of unequal sparsely plumose ...
and a densely plumose pappus. ..."
5. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Scales of the involucre slightly united below. Pappus Leaves all or some of them
opposite. strongly plumose, white. Leaves all radical, alternate. TRIBE IX. ..."
6. British Mineralogy:: Or Coloured Figures Intended to Elucidate the by James Sowerby (1804)
"Sulphate of Lime; var. plumose. Class 2. Earth. Ord. 1. Homogeneous. ... Imitative;
vor. plumose. SYN. Sulphate of lime forming snow-white incrustation, &c. ..."
7. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1883)
"terior edge, with long teeth; but the first segment, in addition to this, has
also on each side one large plumose bristle and two small ones. ..."
8. Chronological History of the West Indies by Southey, Thomas (1827)
"Dated on board L'Ocean, in the Road of Cape Francois, 26 plumose. (February \bth.~) "
M. L'AMIRAL, " I hasten to announce to you, that a fleet of the French ..."
9. Henrik Krøyer's Publications on Pelagic Marine Copepoda (1838-1849) by Carl C. Damkaer, David M. Damkaer (1979)
"The palps have a pair of long plumose setae at the end and five or six along the
inner edge. The remaining three plates must be regarded as constituting a ..."
10. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"Pappus consisting of bristles, the bristles (or some of them) plumose. ... B.
Pappus of fine soft capillary bristles, scabrous but never plumose ; achenes ..."
11. A System of Mineralogy: In which Minerals are Arranged According to the by Robert Jameson (1820)
"plumose Antimoni»! • Jameson's Mineralogy of Dumfriesshire, p. 74. Î Bruce'»
American Mineralogica! Journal, p. 125. ..."
12. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"with 5 broad ribs and little or no beak: pappus of unequal sparsely plumose ...
and a densely plumose pappus. ..."
13. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Scales of the involucre slightly united below. Pappus Leaves all or some of them
opposite. strongly plumose, white. Leaves all radical, alternate. TRIBE IX. ..."
14. British Mineralogy:: Or Coloured Figures Intended to Elucidate the by James Sowerby (1804)
"Sulphate of Lime; var. plumose. Class 2. Earth. Ord. 1. Homogeneous. ... Imitative;
vor. plumose. SYN. Sulphate of lime forming snow-white incrustation, &c. ..."
15. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1883)
"terior edge, with long teeth; but the first segment, in addition to this, has
also on each side one large plumose bristle and two small ones. ..."
16. Chronological History of the West Indies by Southey, Thomas (1827)
"Dated on board L'Ocean, in the Road of Cape Francois, 26 plumose. (February \bth.~) "
M. L'AMIRAL, " I hasten to announce to you, that a fleet of the French ..."
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