Definition of Plumier

1. plumy [adj] - See also: plumy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plumier

plumed scorpionfish
plumed thistle
plumed thistles
plumed tussock
plumeless
plumelet
plumelets
plumelike
plumeria
plumerias
plumeries
plumery
plumes
plumicorn
plumicorns
plumier (current term)
plumiest
plumigerous
plumiliform
pluming
plumiped
plumipeds
plumist
plumists
plumless
plumlike
plummed
plummer
plummer's disease
plummer-vinson syndrome

Literary usage of Plumier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"On being sent to the French monastery of Trinita dei Monti at Rome, plumier studied botany with great zeal under two members of the order, and especially ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"plumier left a work in French and Latin ready to be printed entitled "Traité des ... plumier also wrote another book of an entirely different character on ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"On being sent to the French monastery of Trinita dei Monti at Rome, plumier studied botany with great zeal under two members of the order, ..."

4. The Genera of Fishes ...: A Contribution to the Stability of Scientific by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1917)
"Sarda plumier, III, 141, 1802, footnote under SPARUS; type SARDA CAUDA AUREA ET LUNATA plumier (SPARUS CHRYSURUS Bloch). Equivalent to OCYURUS Gill. ..."

5. Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England by Richard Pulteney (1790)
"Anecdotes of plumier—Account of his 'works—" ... who followed the example of plumier in giving ... plumier."

6. A Digest of the International Law of the United States: Taken from Documents by Francis Wharton (1887)
"Sympathy with the insurgents also, if not desire for plumier, led to the fitting out in Baltimore of numerous privateers to prey on . ..."

7. The Annals of Bristol in the Seventeenth Century by John Latimer (1900)
"... the Chamberlain was compelled to disburse money to n plumier " for taking cats out of the ... plumier ..."

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