plumy
adjEtymology From plume + -y.
1
Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery.
- The head and neck is of a pure straw yellow above and rich metallic green beneath. The long plumy tufts of golden orange feathers spring from the sides beneath each wing, and when the bird is in repose are partly concealed by them.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 253:
- Derived terms
- pluminess