plume

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.

Object

• serpent: The snake is another common subject of sculpture and is often shown as Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent.
• helmet: She wears her aegis or breastplate and her plumed helmet, symbol of illumination.

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.