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plumose

/ploo-mohs/US // ˈplu moʊs //UK // (ˈpluːməʊs, -məʊz) //

翎毛,翎毛类,翎毛类动物,翎羽

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having feathers or plumes; feathered.
    • : feathery or plumelike.

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Examples

  • The main stem is in long spiral turns, and at intervals has spreading plumose branches.

  • At the exterior bases of the pedicels of some of the anterior cirri, there are large tufts of finely plumose, delicate hairs.

  • Achenes numerous in a head, bearing the persistent styles as naked, hairy, or plumose tails.

  • Achenes cylindrical, 10-striate; pappus a single row of very plumose (white) bristles.

  • Pappus of 15–40 capillary bristles, manifestly plumose or only barbellate.