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Definition of Plumous
1. feathered [adj]
Medical Definition of Plumous
1. 1. Having feathers or plumes. 2. Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles. Origin: L. Plumosus, fr. Pluma feather: cf. F. Plumeux. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plumous
Literary usage of Plumous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1888)
"All feathery grasses are among the most lovely for minor decorative purposes or
designs, and this may also be said of the Australian plumous Stipa ..."
2. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"Calyx with the limb involute, and at length evolved in a deciduous plumous pappus.
Corolla with the tube ol>conic or cylindric, equal or gibbous at base, ..."
3. Tenby: A Sea-side Holiday by Philip Henry Gosse (1856)
"... —Thick-horn—plumous—Sea-oak—Its Structure and Reproduction—Virgin Ascidia—Clavelina—
Sand Launce—Shanny— Popular Nomenclature—Dictyota—Bryopsis—Levels ..."
4. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1873)
"Sand hilla about Wilmington, N. Car. Sts. numerous and much branched, 8 to 12' high.
Scales leafy, green, pappus rather plumous than ..."
5. Class Book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"Sand bills about Wilmington, N. Car. Sts. numerous and much branched, S to 12' high.
Scales leafy, green, pappus rather plumous than ..."
6. The Century (1902)
"The part of the plate upon which . the plumous or negative phase is seeu is ...
represented on the plate by the slender spindle joining the plumous and the ..."
7. The Microscope: Its History, Construction, and Application, Being a Familiar by Jabez Hogg (1861)
"At different parts there are plumous shoots, usually about an inch in height.
... It is plumous, and the cells in a close row, cup-like, and supported on ..."
8. The American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure, Life by Alphonso Wood (1875)
"plumous tails 2' long. ... Carpels many (50—75), with long plumous tails.
One large flower..No. ..."
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