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

Mr. Hemsley adds, that this substance proves to be the plumose seeds of a poplar or willow.

From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel

Adiantum Farleyense.—This beautiful Maidenhair is supposed to be a subfertile, plumose form of A. tenerum, which much resembles it, especially in a young state.

From Garden and Forest Weekly, Volume 1 No. 1, February 29, 1888 by Various

Characters as in Glyceria, but the flowering glumes inconspicuously or obsoletely 5-nerved; squamulæ thin and distinct; stigmas sessile and simply plumose; grain compressed, often broadly furrowed.—Mostly saline species; perennial.

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 pistil consists of an ovary and two styles ending in plumose stigmas.

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