plumose

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   covered with, bearing, or consisting of feathers or plumes

   The bird's plumose crest spread into a soft orange fan.

2. 2
   adj

   resembling a feather because fine hairs or branches are arranged along a central axis

   Male mosquitoes have plumose antennae that help them detect the wingbeats of females.

From Latin plumosus, 'feathered,' based on pluma, 'a feather or down.' Naturalists extended the literal sense to antennae, setae, plant parts, and other structures whose fine branches are arranged like the barbs of a feather.

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