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

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

A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact.It is sulphide of antimony and lead.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Citrate: antennae with very long, curled lateral branches which may or may not be ciliated; see plumose.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

Thus, when acting as swimming organs, the appendages, or their rami, are more or less flattened, or oar-like, and often have the margins fringed with long plumose hairs.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various