Definition of plume

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Plume (v.) A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers..

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Plumy :: Plumy (a.) Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery..
Plumassier :: Plumassier (n.) One who prepares or deals in ornamental plumes or feathers.
Deplume :: Deplume (v. t.) To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.
Plumery :: Plumery (n.) Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage..
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..
Semiplume :: Semiplume (n.) A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather..
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..
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.
Penned :: Penned (a.) Winged; having plumes.
Deplumation :: Deplumation (n.) The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
Pennach :: Pennach (n.) A bunch of feathers; a plume.
Unbarbed :: Unbarbed (a.) Destitute of bards, or of reversed points, hairs, or plumes; as, an unbarded feather..
Panache :: Panache (n.) A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers..
Displumed :: Displumed (imp. & p. p.) of Displum.
Plumed :: Plumed (imp. & p. p.) of Plum.
Pennated :: Pennated (a.) Winged; plume-shaped.
Microlepidoptera :: Microlepidoptera (n. pl.) A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc..
Gorgonia :: Gorgonia (n.) A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis..
Plumeless :: Plumeless (a.) Without plumes.
Implumed :: Implumed (a.) Not plumed; without plumes or feathers; featherless.
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