Preposition: of

• smoke: A plume of thick black smoke was visible from several miles away.

• feather: A hat of black velvet is worn adorned with a plume of feathers.

• ash: A plume of ash rising from Mount on Montagu Island.

• spray: The boat sped swiftly away trailing a plume of spray over the calm water of the lagoon.

• steam: Some geothermal activity was clearly evident in the surrounding hills with plumes of steam rising into the air.

• dust: These plumes of dust are caused by collisions between rocks in the belt.

Adjective modifier

• hydrothermal: Processes active in hydrothermal plumes modify the gross flux from hydrothermal venting to the oceans.

• convective: There is a rising convective plume beneath the Azores.

• buoyant: Figure 23: Sketch of a buoyant plume rising in the absence of a background wind.

• volcanic: Such volcanic plumes have been known to cause lightning on Earth.

• turbulent: How is this commonly approximated in models of turbulent plumes?

Modifies a noun

• moth: Many like the plume moths can be identified by their characteristic scales.

Noun used with modifier

• mantle: The location of mantle plumes during the initial stages of Gondwana break up.

• ostrich: She was depicted by Egyptian artists as a woman wearing an ostrich plume on her head.

• contaminant: Results from the site investigations indicated that contaminant plumes existed within part of the site.

• exhaust: The exhaust plume looked much cleaner than in previous tests having very little black smoke.

• feather: Although dress regulations states black feather plume with ring of scarlet feathers, most pictures show scarlet feathers with black ring.

• smoke: Another strange feature is the dark smoke plumes seen to erupt from the surface.