Pluma
This article is about the singular term and affix. For the plural term, see Plumas.
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Plumage phenotype: bottom side of a primary feather of a Buzzard
The term Pluma[1] and the affix ~pluma~ (Latin: plūma "feather")[2] may refer to:
- a soft feather of a bird.[1]
In birds
- Plumage - the layer of feathers that cover a bird
- Plumage Section - campaigners the Selborne Society against the use of birds for fashion
- Plumage League - a campaign against the excessive use of birds' feathers and plumage in ladies fashions
- Plumaceous - down of birds
- Plumology - the plumage science
In natural sciences
- Plumalexiidae - an extinct monotypic family
- Plumalexius - a genus of wasp
- Plumalexius rasnitsyni - a wasp species
- Plumalexius - a genus of wasp
- Plumaria - a genus of flowering plants in the family Cyperaceae
- Plumatellidae - a class of the phylum Bryozoa
- Plumatella - a genus of bryozoans from Plumatellidae family
- Plumatella fungosa - a species of bryozoans from the family Plumatellidae
- Plumatella magnifica - a member of the Bryozoa phylum, in the order Plumatellida
- Plumatella - a genus of bryozoans from Plumatellidae family
- Plumatichilos - a terrestrial deciduous genus of orchids
- Plumage Archer - a member of the grass family, barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)
- Plumareola - a genus of moths in the family Arctiidae
- Plumareola lineola - a genus of moths in the family Arctiidae
- Pluma (fish) - a name in the West Indies of a fish, Calamus calamus
- Pluma porgy - an ocean-going fish of the family Sparidae, Calamus pennatula
In computing
- pluma (editor) - small and lightweight UTF-8 text editor for the MATE environment
In places
- Pluma Hidalgo - a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico
- Pluma de Pato - a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina
In other uses
- Peso pluma (Spanish) - a weight class division in the sport of Boxing, Kickboxing, Mixed Martial Arts organizations and in Greco-Roman Wrestling
References
- 1 2 Valpy, Francis Edward Jackson (1828). An Etymological Dictionary of the Latin Language. London: Trinity College, Cambridge. p. 348. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
- ↑ Harper, Douglas. "pluma". Etymonline.com. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
See also
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Pennatulacea ("Sea feather"; Virgularia sp.)
- Plumas (disambiguation) - Spanish for "Feathers"; disambiguation page
- Quill
- Pennatulacea
- Calamus (disambiguation)
- Plumaudan
- Porgy (fish)
- Bluma (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing pluma
- All pages beginning with "pluma"
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