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Meanings of milky in English

Resembling milk in color not clear.

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Examples for "whitish"
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The large eyes in particular are whitish, cloudy, blurred, and apparently blind.
Social Life in the Insect World
2
The sky of Central Brazil was always of a whitish cobalt blue.
Across Unknown South America
3
The substance was whitish, or resembled the coagulated white of an egg:
The Book of the Damned
4
Steam rose in a whitish mass and blew directly away from Calhoun.
This World Is Taboo
5
Beyond the straight and lofty pine trunks a whitish glare soon appeared.
The Delight Makers
1
Even the river lost its voice and seemed to flow milklike and silent.
The Pinhoe Egg
Usage of milky in English
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Water buffalo wallow in milky water in a film by Ozan Atalan.
The Guardian
2
The saline tracts between the prisms produce a milky or opalescent appearance.
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
3
If it be the milky way, the stars must be the cows.
Wilfrid Cumbermede
4
She had given him a smooth, milky-colored stone intricately marked with runes.
The Black Unicorn
5
If it turns milky, it is hard; if not, it is soft.
Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful ...
6
He saw them as faint, milky globes of whiteness in the dusk.
Fated to Be Free: A Novel
7
Like the milky-way, it whitens along its allotted portion of the hemisphere.
Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 / Revised, Enlarged, and ...
8
A shell-pink tinge crept into the milky skin of the Irish girl.
The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North
9
The milky juice of the Osage orange is used as a wart-cure.
Current Superstitions / Collected from the Oral Tradition of Eng...
10
She unwound them and they dripped from her hand in milky whiteness.
The Trumpeter Swan
11
She still felt disconnected from her body, blocked by the milky wall.
Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light
12
The milky juice is employed for the treatment of inflammation and rheumatism.
Pubmed
13
His pain and nausea were subsiding but his thinking was still milky.
Secret of the seventh son
14
Baby pulled at Mother's shirt, exposing a milky expanse of swollen breast.
Brains: a zombie memoir
15
The fluorescent tubes flickered briefly, then glowed steadily through the milky glass.
The devil's bones: a body farm novel
16
Outside, through the milky opaque windowpane, light and dark came and went.
Blood and Bone
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