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
Achenes oblong, flattish, not ribbed; pappus of numerous bristles united into a ring at the base, plumose to the middle, deciduous.—Herbs, mostly biennial, with sessile alternate leaves, often pinnatifid, prickly.
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
Mr. Hemsley adds, that this substance proves to be the plumose seeds of a poplar or willow.
From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel
Ovary becoming very gibbous in fruit, with the remains of the styles lateral; flowers in loose ample panicles, the pedicels elongating and becoming plumose; leaves simple, entire.
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 free and long with plumose stigmas.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
