Definitionadj. having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft
Last update: September 26, 2015
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The terminal segments of all the rami, bearing the long plumose spines, are directed backwards. [Please select]
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I could not perceive that they were plumose, as in many other genera. [Please select]
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All the spines are of excessive tenuity and sharpness; they are straight, long, and not plumose. [Please select]
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12), which bears two or three long, non-plumose spines; on the summit there are three or four rather shorter spines. [Please select]
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Plumose: feathered; like a plume: antennae that have long ciliated processes on each side of each joint: see cirrate. [Please select]
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Antennæ small; third joint elongate-conical, not extending more than half the length to the epistoma; arista plumose. [Please select]
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The margins of these feathers are rendered plumose by the divergence of the barbs and barbules, so that they resemble in some degree those on the back of the black Australian swan. [Please select]
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Albin in 1738, and Temminck within a much later period, describe a beautiful breed, dusky-yellowish, brown above and white beneath, with a large top- knot of soft plumose feather. [Please select]
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