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Webster 1828 Edition


Plumose

PLU'MOSE


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plumose

plumose

English

Adjective

plumose (comparative more plumose, superlative most plumose)

  1. Having feathers or plumes.
  2. Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles.

References

  • plumose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Latin

Adjective

plūmōse

  1. vocative masculine singular of plūmōsus