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

Ovary is glabrous with two styles ending in plumose stigmas.

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

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

Many crystals of sulphate of iron lie at the bottom of the cliff, and several layers of plumose alum, half an inch thick, occur in the strata.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John