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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..

Plumelet :: Plumelet (n.) A small plume.

Plume :: Plume (v.) A token of honor or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.

Hypoptilum :: Hypoptilum (n.) An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.

Deplumate :: Deplumate (a.) Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed.

Microlepidoptera :: Microlepidoptera (n. pl.) A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc..

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)..

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..

Pennach :: Pennach (n.) A bunch of feathers; a plume.

Sea Feather :: Sea feather () Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.

Plumeless :: Plumeless (a.) Without plumes.

Aigrette :: Aigrette (n.) A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc..

Plumous :: Plumous (a.) Having feathers or plumes.

Filoplumaceous :: Filoplumaceous (a.) Having the structure of a filoplume.

Implumed :: Implumed (a.) Not plumed; without plumes or feathers; featherless.

Semiplume :: Semiplume (n.) A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather..

Plume :: Plume (v.) A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses..

Displume :: Displume (v. t.) To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade..

Unplume :: Unplume (v. t.) To strip of plumes or feathers; hence, to humiliate..

Deplumation :: Deplumation (n.) The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.

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