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plumate

[ ploo-meyt, -mit ]

adjective

Zoology.
  1. resembling a feather, as a hair or bristle that bears smaller hairs.


plumate

/ -mɪt; ˈpluËmeɪt /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or possessing one or more feathers or plumes
  2. resembling a plume; covered with small hairs

    a plumate seed

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of plumate1

First recorded in 1820–30, plumate is from the Latin word ±è±ôÅ«³¾Äå³Ù³Ü²õ feathered. See plume, -ate 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of plumate1

C19: from Latin ±è±ô³Ü³¾Äå³Ù³Ü²õ covered with feathers; see plume
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After breakfast he dusted the glass over these portraits himself with a cloth, and brushed the oil painting of his wife with a plumate kept suspended from a small brass hook by the side of the heavy gold frame.

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