Phrase Hound found 12 phrases and 6 compound words that contain plumes. The most common are listed below. Open plumes in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 12
- adorn oneself with borrowed plumesTo claim the honor of another for oneself.
- mantle plumesplural of mantle plume: An upwelling of abnormally hot molten material from the Earth's mantle which spreads sideways when it reaches the lithosphere.
- Apache plumesplural of Apache plume: A desert shrub in the family Rosaceae native to the southwestern US and northern Mexico, Fallugia paradoxa
- Spanish plumesplural of Spanish plume: A weather pattern where hot air from the Iberian Peninsula flows towards Northern Europe, often causing high temperatures and also severe thunderstorms.
- adorned oneself with borrowed plumessimple past and past participle of adorn oneself with borrowed plumes
- adorning oneself with borrowed plumespresent participle and gerund of adorn oneself with borrowed plumes
- adorns oneself with borrowed plumesthird-person singular simple present indicative of adorn oneself with borrowed plumes: To claim the honor of another for oneself.
- prince's plumesplural of prince's plume: Amaranthus hypochondriacus, an ornamental plant.
- pulled someone's plumessimple past and past participle of pull someone's plumes
- pulling someone's plumespresent participle and gerund of pull someone's plumes
- pull someone's plumesTo humble, to puncture the pride of
- pulls someone's plumesthird-person singular simple present indicative of pull someone's plumes: To humble, to puncture the pride of
Compound words 6
- antiplumesplural of antiplume: A void in the seafloor caused by subduction of an underlying plate
- displumesthird-person singular simple present indicative of displume: To deprive of feathers or plumes.
- megaplumesplural of megaplume: A very large plume or column of water.
- semiplumesplural of semiplume: A feather which has a downy vane and a long rachis, often used for insulation.
- superplumesplural of superplume: A large mantle plume.
- filoplumesplural of filoplume: A hair-like feather; a feather with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.