plume : Idioms & Phrases

• noun perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome
  Stanleya pinnata; Cleome pinnata; desert plume.
  

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• noun an author's pseudonym
  pen name.
  

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• literally, pen name; hence, a name assumed by an author as his or her signature.

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• (Zoöl.), any bird that yields ornamental plumes, especially the species of Epimarchus from New Guinea, and some of the herons and egrets, as the white heron of Florida (Ardea candidissima).

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• noun a reedlike grass of the genus Erianthus having large plumes
  

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• . (Bot) (a) A kind of grass (Erianthus saccharoides) with the spikelets arranged in great silky plumes, growing in swamps in the Southern United States . (b) The still finer E. Ravennæ from the Mediterranean region. The name is sometimes extended to the whole genus.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of numerous small, slender moths, belonging to the family Pterophoridæ. Most of them have the wings deeply divided into two or more plumelike lobes. Some species are injurious to the grapevine.

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• (Bot.), an aromatic Australian tree (Atherosperma moschata), whose numerous carpels are tipped with long plumose persistent styles.

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• noun herb of China and Japan widely cultivated for its plumelike panicles of creamy white flowers
  Macleaya cordata; bocconia.
  

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• noun any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads
  plume thistle.
  

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• adjective satellite of a plant tipped with a plume
  

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• (Zoöl.), an African viper (Vipera, ∨ Clotho, cornuta), having a plumelike structure over each eye. It is venomous, and is related to the African puff adder. Called also horned viper and hornsman.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), the California mountain quail (Oreortyx pictus). See Mountain quail, under Mountain.

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• noun a kind of scorpionfish
  Scorpaena grandicornis.
  

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• noun any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads
  plume thistle.
  

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• noun tall grass of New Zealand grown for plumelike flower heads
  Arundo richardii; toe toe; toetoe; Cortaderia richardii.
  

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• noun annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America
  kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate; Polygonum orientale; princess feather; prince's-feather.
  
• noun perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome
  Stanleya pinnata; Cleome pinnata; desert plume.
  
• noun tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal
  gentleman's-cane; Amaranthus cruentus; prince's-feather; Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus; Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys; purple amaranth; red amaranth.
  

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• noun New Zealand with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todea
  Leptopteris superba; Todea superba; crape fern; Prince-of-Wales fern; Prince-of-Wales feather.
  

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• noun Mexican shrub often cultivated for its scarlet-bracted flowers
  Euphorbia fulgens.
  

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