Definition of "plumose" []

• Having feathers or featherlike growths; feathered. (adjective)
• Resembling a plume; feathery. (adjective)

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• "The pilings are covered with plumose anemones, invertebrate filter feeders."
• "Both features help pollen grains adhere to their bodies, but they also have specialized pollen-carrying structures; in most bees, this takes the form of a structure known as the scopa, which is on the hind legs of most bees, and/or the lower abdomen (e.g., of megachilid bees), made up of thick, plumose setae."
• "The granite's granophyric groundmass consists of intergrown quartz and potassium feldspar (~Or45), the latter consisting of plumose splays that nucleated directly from pre-existing phenocrysts."