| 单词 | plumose |
| 释义 | plumose, a.|pluːˈməʊs|
[ad. L. plūmōsus covered with down (f. plūma plume): see -ose.]
Furnished with feathers or plumes, feathered; feathery; resembling a feather or plume in having two series of fine filaments on opposite sides: esp. in Zool., Bot., and Min.
1727Bailey vol. II, Plumose, full of feathers.
a. in Zoology.
plumose anemone, a sea anemone, Actinoloba dianthus.
1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 361 The cuneiform-tailed Psittacus, with naked temples, and plumose lines. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 324 Plumose... Antennæ feathered on all sides with fine long hair. 1852Dana Crust. i. 227 One of the plumose hairs of the villous coat. 1871Darwin Desc. Man xiii. (1883) 385 The barbs of the feathers..are filamentous or plumose.
b. in Botany.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xiv. (1765) 37 Plumose, feathery. 1831J. Davies Manual Mat. Med. 271 Fruits elongate, surmounted by a plumose pappus. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. App. 310 Stigmas plumose.
c. in Mineralogy, etc. plumose alum, feather or plume alum: see alum n. 4.
1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) II. 34 Sal Ammoniac... Its Crystals are plumose. 1802Edin. Rev. I. 58 Crystals of gypsum and plumose alum. 1826Henry Elem. Chem. I. 467 Plumose branches of ice dart from the sulphuret to the bottom of the vessel, and the whole water is suddenly frozen. 1834Baird in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. No. 2. 49 Mixed with the ‘comoid’ variety of ‘cirrus’,..accompanied with some specimens of the ‘plumose’ variety.
Hence pluˈmoseness.
1730–6in Bailey (folio). |
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