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plume
1. A feather developed for the purposes of display, being long and showy.
2. A feather; especially, a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.
3. An ornamental tuft of feathers.
4. A large feather or cluster of feathers worn as an ornament or symbol of rank; such as, those worn on a helmet.
5. A structure or form that is like a long feather: "It rose like a plume of smoke."
6. In ecology, a space in air, water, or soil containing pollutants released from a point source.
7. In geology, an upwelling of molten material from the earth's mantle.
2. A feather; especially, a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.
3. An ornamental tuft of feathers.
4. A large feather or cluster of feathers worn as an ornament or symbol of rank; such as, those worn on a helmet.
5. A structure or form that is like a long feather: "It rose like a plume of smoke."
6. In ecology, a space in air, water, or soil containing pollutants released from a point source.
7. In geology, an upwelling of molten material from the earth's mantle.
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(Latin: feather)
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mantle plume
A large upwelling of molten material from the earth's mantle.
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1. A pseudonym adopted by an author instead of his or her real name: Sally Jones uses the nom de plume of Katherine Hastings for the novels that she writes.
2. Etymology: from French nom, "name" + de, "of" + plume, "pen" (or "feather").
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2. Etymology: from French nom, "name" + de, "of" + plume, "pen" (or "feather").
The "pen" part comes from "feather" from which pens were once made.
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nom de plume, pen name, pseudonym
nom de plume (nahm" duh PLOOM) (noun)
A term that applies to authors who do not use their real names: Mark Twain is the nom de plume for the writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens who wrote stories about boys living on the Mississippi River.
pen name (PEN naym") (noun)
The name an author assumes which is not his or her real name: Some women writers in the 1800s used a masculine pen name instead of their own names.
pseudonym (SOOD n im") (noun)
A false or fictitious name: The famous highwayman used a pseudonym so he would not be recognized when he was talking with people at the inn.
The elegant and noble chevalier wrote critical essays under his nom de plume. He thought it was safer to write under a foreign sounding pen name than to attempt to write under a readily recognizable pseudonym.
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A chemical or an odor that an animal produces which changes the behavior of another animal of the same species including insects: Male moths locate females by navigating along their plumes pf pheromones or clouds of vapors resembling feathers as they spread from their points of origin, often flying hundreds of feet before they can succeed.
Males must find the outer envelope of the plumes of pheromones and then head upwind.to find the females.
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