单词 | silvery-silken |
释义 | > as lemmassilvery-silken a. Qualifying other adjectives, as silvery-green, silvery-silken, silvery-white, etc. ΚΠ 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 242 Stem hollow, silvery grey. 1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. ii. 588 Silvery-brownish Slow-Worm. 1831 E. A. Poe To Helen in Poet. Wks. (1859) 62 Through heaven There fell a silvery-silken veil of light. 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 174/1 The brilliant silvery-white appearance so characteristic of the fibrous membranes. 1882 Garden 25 Nov. 469/3 Silvery pink, becoming darker with age. < as lemmas |
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