Other forms: plumes
A plume is a long showy feather, or a rising column of smoke. An ostrich plume, a plume of smoke, a plume of ash.
The two senses share a shape: something rising and spreading at the top. In science a plume is any such column, whether of volcanic ash, of pollution in groundwater or of hot rock rising through the mantle.
1nounplumeA long showy feather, or a rising column of smoke.
“A plume of black smoke rose from the burning factory.”
plume is a feather, or a column.
PLUME → smoke that BLOOMs upward
The smoke blooms up from the roof in one long column and hangs there.
hooks ontobloom
Latin pluma means a soft feather or down, through Old French plume.
Anglo-Norman
plume
Middle English
plume
English, today
plume
From Middle English plume, from Anglo-Norman plume. From Late Middle English plum,plume (“feather; plumage”), from Anglo-Norman plum,plume, from Old French plume,plome (“feather, plumage”), from Latin plūma (“feather, plumage”) (compare Latin plūma (“pen, quill”)), from Proto-Italic plouksmā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European plewk- (“to fly”). a doublet of pluma.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA