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 short, with plumose stigmas and laterally exserted.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
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 Charles Darwin
These spines are often doubly serrated or plumose: many of them on the protuberant segments of the first three pair of cirri, are sometimes coarsely and doubly pectinated.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
The pistil consists of an ovary and two styles ending in plumose stigmas.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
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