Definition of plume

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Plume (v.) An ornamental tuft of feathers.

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Plume :: Plume (v. t.) To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.
Semiplume :: Semiplume (n.) A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather..
Beplumed :: Beplumed (a.) Decked with feathers.
Coquette :: Coquette (n.) A tropical humming bird of the genus Lophornis, with very elegant neck plumes. Several species are known. See Illustration under Spangle, v. t..
Egret :: Egret (n.) A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette..
Plume :: Plume (v.) A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers..
Serpula :: Serpula (n.) Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts..
Crest :: Crest (v. t.) To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes..
Plumous :: Plumous (a.) Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles..
Egret :: Egret (n.) The name of several species of herons which bear plumes on the back. They are generally white. Among the best known species are the American egret (Ardea, / Herodias, egretta); the great egret (A. alba); the little egret (A. garzetta), of Europe; and the American snowy egret (A. candidissima)..
Implumed :: Implumed (a.) Not plumed; without plumes or feathers; featherless.
Corniplume :: Corniplume (n.) A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.
Aigrette :: Aigrette (n.) A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc..
Pterophore :: Pterophore (n.) Any moth of the genus Pterophorus and allied genera; a plume moth. See Plume moth, under Plume..
Filoplume :: Filoplume (n.) A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.
Plume :: Plume (v.) A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses..
Pennach :: Pennach (n.) A bunch of feathers; a plume.
Plume :: Plume (v.) A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather..
Plumiliform :: Plumiliform (a.) Having the of a plume or feather.
Frangipanni :: Frangipanni (n.) A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria..
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