plumeux
French, adjective/ply.mø/
plumeux is a French adjective meaning “feathery” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Composé de parties grêles et garnies de poils semblables aux barbes de plume”.
What does plumeux mean in English?
adjective
- 1
feathery
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Composé de parties grêles et garnies de poils semblables aux barbes de plume. 2. Se dit de certains cristaux très déliés, disposés comme les barbes d’une plume.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of plumeux
- plumeuse feminine
- plumeuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce plumeux?
- /ply.mø/
- \ply.mø\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to plumeux
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is plumeux in French?
plumeux appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).