Definitions for plumose

plumose plu·mose

Spelling: [ploo-mohs]
IPA: /ˈplu moʊs/

Plumose is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 214 anagrams from letters in plumose (elmopsu).

Definitions for plumose

adjective

  1. having feathers or plumes; feathered.
  2. feathery or plumelike.

Origin of plumose

From the Latin word plūmōsus, dating back to 1720-30. See plume, -ose1

Examples for plumose

Bristles of the pappus naked (not plumose), merely rough or denticulate.

Ovary is glabrous with two styles ending in plumose stigmas.

In certain breeds of the pigeon and fowl the feathers are plumose, with some tendency in the shafts to be naked.

Styles are short, with plumose stigmas and laterally exserted.

Even the plumose antenn of male gnats may in some respects thus be acted upon.

The pistil consists of an ovary and two styles ending in plumose stigmas.

Achenes 10-ribbed; pappus of rather rigid bristles, not plumose.

Mr. Hemsley adds, that this substance proves to be the plumose seeds of a poplar or willow.

I could not perceive that they were plumose, as in many other genera.

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

Word Value for plumose
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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