Pluma

Plumage phenotype: bottom side of a primary feather of a Buzzard

The term Pluma^[1] and the affix ~pluma~ (Latin: plūma "feather")^[2] may refer to:

In birds

Plumage - the layer of feathers that cover a bird
- Plumage Section - campaigners the Selborne Society against the use of birds for fashion
- Plumage League - a campaign against the excessive use of birds' feathers and plumage in ladies fashions
Plumaceous - down of birds
Plumology - the plumage science

Plumalexiidae - an extinct monotypic family
- Plumalexius - a genus of wasp
  - Plumalexius rasnitsyni - a wasp species
Plumaria - a genus of flowering plants in the family Cyperaceae
Plumatellidae - a class of the phylum Bryozoa
- Plumatella - a genus of bryozoans from Plumatellidae family
  - Plumatella fungosa - a species of bryozoans from the family Plumatellidae
  - Plumatella magnifica - a member of the Bryozoa phylum, in the order Plumatellida
Plumatichilos - a terrestrial deciduous genus of orchids
Plumage Archer - a member of the grass family, barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)
Plumareola - a genus of moths in the family Arctiidae
- Plumareola lineola - a genus of moths in the family Arctiidae
Pluma (fish) - a name in the West Indies of a fish, Calamus calamus
- Pluma porgy - an ocean-going fish of the family Sparidae, Calamus pennatula

pluma (editor) - small and lightweight UTF-8 text editor for the MATE environment

Pluma Hidalgo - a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico
Pluma de Pato - a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina

Peso pluma (Spanish) - a weight class division in the sport of Boxing, Kickboxing, Mixed Martial Arts organizations and in Greco-Roman Wrestling

^ ^a ^b Valpy, Francis Edward Jackson (1828). An Etymological Dictionary of the Latin Language. London: Trinity College, Cambridge. p. 348. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
^ Harper, Douglas. "pluma". Etymonline.com. Retrieved 24 April 2015.