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Plump; fat; sleek. "Plumpy Bacchus." Shak.

A plumule.

Downy; bearing down.

Relating to a plumule.

Any hydroid belonging to Plumularia and other genera of the family Plumularidæ. They generally grow in plumelike forms.

Any Plumularia. Also used adjectively.

The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. See Illust. of Radicle. Gray.

Having hairs branching out laterally, like the parts of a feather.

Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery. "His plumy crest." Addison. "The plumy trees." J. S. Blackie.

Decked with feathers.

A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.

Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed.

The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers. Bp. Stillingfleet

To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage. On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather. Fuller.

To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade. Displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed. Burke.

Plumed. [R.]

Having the structure of a filoplume.

A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.

Not plumed; without plumes or feathers; featherless. [R.] Drayton.

The drupaceous fruit of two South African shrubs of the genus Arduina (A. bispinosa and A. grandiflora).