Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Downy; of or pertaining to a plumule; in ornithology, not pennaceous. See plumule.
Wiktionary
- adj. Downy; bearing down.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Downy; bearing down.
Examples
“Together the results favor an evolutionary sequence of feather filaments splitting to form primitive barbs without barbules - radially symmetric downy feathers with plumulaceous barbs- bilaterally symmetric plumulaceous feathers - bilaterally symmetric pennaceous vanes - bilaterally asymmetric vanes Fig.”
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
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