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- a long, soft feather or arrangement of feathers used by a bird for display or worn by a person for ornament羽毛; 羽饰：
a hat with a jaunty ostrich plume.
饰有时髦鸵鸟羽毛的帽子。
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- Zoology a part of an animal's body that resembles a feather【动】羽状物：
the antennae are divided into large feathery plumes.
触角被分成了硕大的羽状物。
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- a long cloud of smoke or vapour resembling a feather as it spreads from its point of origin羽状烟柱（或气流）：
as he spoke, the word was accompanied by a white plume of breath.
他说话时, 话语伴随着白色的哈气。
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- a mass of material, typically a pollutant, spreading from a source（尤指污染物）（从源头蔓延开来的）一团物质：
a radioactive plume.
一团放射性物资。
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- （亦作mantle plume）Geology a localized column of hotter magma rising by convection in the mantle, believed to cause volcanic activity in locations away from plate margins【地质】地幔柱。
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- no obj. spread out in a shape resembling a feather呈羽毛状散开, 散布：
smoke plumed from the chimneys.
烟从烟囱里散布出来。
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- with obj. decorate with or as if with feathers用羽毛装饰; 仿佛用羽毛装饰：
as adj. plumed rain began to beat down on my plumed cap.纷纷扬扬的雨水开始打在我的有羽饰的帽子上。
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plume oneself
chiefly archaic 〈主古〉(of a bird) preen itself（鸟）整理羽毛。
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- figurative feel a great sense of self-satisfaction about something〈喻〉引以为傲, 引以为豪, 炫耀：
she plumed herself on being cosmopolitan.
她以自己见多识广而引以为豪。
派生词
plumeless
adjectiveplume-like
adjectiveplumery
noun词源
late Middle English: from Old French， from Latin pluma 'down'.