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What is the adjective for plumes?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb plume which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

plumose
  1. Having feathers or plumes.
  2. Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike
  3. Synonyms:
      4. feathery, feathered, plumed, downy, plumy, plumate, fleecy, furry, woolly, fuzzy, wooly, smooth, velutinous, pubescent, fluffy, hairy, shaggy, soft, rough, silky, bristly, hirsute, unshorn, flocculent, cottony, velvety, lanate, furred, brushy, bushy, floccose, whiskered, pilose, stubbly, satiny, flossy, pileous, tufted, unshaven, bewhiskered, bearded, linty, silken, lanose, cushiony, frizzy, villous, piliferous, peachlike, peachy … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Coode and Richardson pointed out a relationship between Centranthus and Valeriana because both genera share a plumose pappus.”
      “Fruits of this species are glabrous achenes, with sepals modified into plumose bristles and are frequently wind-dispersed.”
      “Huge boulders surround the site, festooned in dead man's fingers and plumose and dahlia anemones.”
plumy
  1. Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. feathery, feathered, plumed, downy, plumate, plumose, fleecy, plumlike, plummy, plum-colored, plum-like … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “A squirrel dashed across the road, plumy tail bouncing behind it, and went up a tree.”
      “He was just coming down for dinner when a plump woman with straw-colored hair and a big plumy hat came in.”
      “Although the plumy flowers are beautiful, the form, color, and texture of miscanthus foliage is quite striking by itself.”
plumiliform
  1. Having the shape of a plume or feather.
plumed
  1. Having or decorated with a plume or plumes.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. feathery, feathered, downy, plumy, plumate, plumose, fleecy, avian, airborne, avicular, birdlike, birdly, ornithic, ornithological, volucrine, winged … more
plumelike
  1. Resembling a plume or some aspect of one.
plumous
  1. Alternative form of plumose
plumaged
  1. Having plumage.
  2. Examples:
      3. “The fowl path, which is a colourful mixture of local, brilliantly plumaged birds is an attractive spot for children.”
      “Brightly plumaged, these jays range just north of the Mexican border, in areas such as Hidalgo County, Texas, home of sizable rattlers.”
      “However, the most picturesque of all bee-eaters in the world is the crimson plumaged carmine bee-eater.”
plumeless
  1. Without plumes.
pluming
  1. present participle of plume
  2. Synonyms:
      3. bragging, boasting, crowing, swaggering, gasconading, strutting, vaunting, flattering, piquing, swelling, preening, presuming, priding, glorying in, reveling in, congratulating oneself, flattering oneself, holding head high, puffing up, exulting in, congratulating, exulting, felicitating, prancing, crowing about, bragging about, boasting about, gloating, blustering, swanking, grandstanding, bulling, blowing, flaunting, vaporing, showboating, skiting, puffing, exaggerating, aggrandizing, triumphing, overstating, advertising, advertizing, congratulating oneself on, giving oneself airs, blowing your own trumpet, preening oneself, blowing your own horn, patting oneself on the back … more
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