plural of Spanish plume

plural of mantle plume

(idiomatic, obsolete) To humble, to puncture the pride of

A kind of grass, Erianthus saccharoides, now Bothriochloa saccharoides), with the spikelets arranged in great silky plumes, growing in swamps in the Southern United States.

(botany) An aromatic Australian tree (Atherosperma moschatum), whose numerous carpels are tipped with long plumose persistent styles.

(zoology) Any one of numerous small, slender moths, belonging to the family Pterophoridae, most of which have wings deeply divided into two or more plumelike lobes, some species of which are injurious to the grapevine.

(geology) An upwelling of abnormally hot molten material from the Earth's mantle which spreads sideways when it reaches the lithosphere.

plural of plumed thistle

Spear thistle.

A desert shrub in the family Rosaceae native to the southwestern US and northern Mexico, Fallugia paradoxa