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 pistil consists of an ovary and two styles ending in plumose stigmas.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
It has oblong-oval floating leaves 4–6´´ long, closely pinnately-veined, which bear conceptacles and branching plumose fibres on their under surface.
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
The terminal segments of all the rami, bearing the long plumose spines, are directed backwards.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
Flowers purple 8 Pappus of very plumose bristles.
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
