Usage of "sericeous" | TermGallery

Covered with fine soft hairs or down.

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Examples for "downy"

The blind woman was feeling carefully the downy head of the baby. 
 Women of the Country 

Seventy-five per cent of the food of the downy woodpecker is insects. 
 Bird Day; How to prepare for it 

Capparis Mitchelii has a downy fruit, and is common in the scrubs. 
 Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia / From Moreton Ba... 

Its plumage is very downy and soft, and it weighs exceedingly light. 
 Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia / Performed Un... 

It was soft and downy, and he gave vent to his satisfaction. 
 Baree, Son of Kazan 

Ah, leave me alone in my pubescent park, in my mossy garden. 
 The Annotated Lolita 

It was surreal to watch that whole pubescent obsession from the inside. 
 Reuters 

For pubescent girls, showing any part of your naked body is anathema. 
 The Guardian 

Divergence is most marked and sudden in the pubescent period-inthe early teens. 
 Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene 

It was Phil, though, that made those pubescent dreams come true. 
 The Guardian 

Significados de sericeous em inglês