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Sericeous   Listen
adjective
Sericeous  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to silk; consisting of silk; silky.
2.
(Bot.) Covered with very soft hairs pressed close to the surface; as, a sericeous leaf.
3.
(Zool.) Having a silklike luster, usually due to fine, close hairs.





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"Sericeous" Quotes from Famous Books



... in an open patch of forest land, covered with grass, and the trees consisted principally of Moreton Bay ash, (a species of eucalyptus), Casuarina, and a rather large-growing Acacia, with broad, rhomboidal, sericeous phyllodia, ...
— Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John MacGillivray


Words linked to "Sericeous" :   pubescent, biology, downy, puberulent, hairy, biological science


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