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Plumery :: Plumery (n.) Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage..

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

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)..

Pterophore :: Pterophore (n.) Any moth of the genus Pterophorus and allied genera; a plume moth. See Plume moth, under Plume..

Plume :: Plume (v. t.) To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.

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

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 token of honor or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.

Beplumed :: Beplumed (a.) Decked with 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..

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.

Marabou :: Marabou (n.) A large stork of the genus Leptoptilos (formerly Ciconia), esp. the African species (L. crumenifer), which furnishes plumes worn as ornaments. The Asiatic species (L. dubius, or L. argala) is the adjutant. See Adjutant..

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

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

Plumassier :: Plumassier (n.) One who prepares or deals in ornamental plumes or feathers.

Plume :: Plume (v. t.) To adorn with feathers or plumes.

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

Filoplume :: Filoplume (n.) A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.

Emplumed :: Emplumed (a.) Plumed.

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