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

The entire plant is hairy, and when mature its seed head is plumose and white, similar to the clematis head, suggesting the head of a very old man with long white hair.

From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by Helleberg, C. G. (Carl Gustaf)

I could not perceive that they were plumose, as in many other genera.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

Styles are free and long with plumose stigmas.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Antennæ small; third joint elongate-conical, not extending more than half the length to the epistoma; arista plumose.

From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various