Plume



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 羽毛; v. 整理羽毛; 搔首弄姿

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin pluma small soft feather — more at fleece
• Date: 14th century
• 1. a feather of a bird: as
  • a. a large conspicuous or showy feather
  • b. contour feather
  • c. plumage
  • d. a cluster of distinctive feathers
• 2.
  • a. material (as a feather, cluster of feathers, or a tuft of hair) worn as an ornament
  • b. a token of honor or prowess ; prize
• 3. something resembling a feather (as in shape, appearance, or lightness): as
  • a. a plumose appendage of a plant
  • b. an elongated and usually open and mobile column or band (as of smoke, exhaust gases, or blowing snow)
  • c. an animal structure having a main shaft bearing many hairs or filamentous parts; especially a full bushy tail
  • d. any of several columns of molten rock rising from the earth's lower mantle that are theorized to drive tectonic plate movement and to underlie hot spots

II. transitive verb (plumed; pluming)

• Date: 15th century
• 1.
  • a. to provide or deck with feathers
  • b. to array showily
• 2. to indulge (oneself) in pride with an obvious or vain display of self-satisfaction
• 3. of a bird
  • a. to preen and arrange the feathers of (itself)
  • b. to preen and arrange (feathers)

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