silky
IPA: sˈɪɫki
noun
- Alternative spelling of silkie [A chicken of a certain breed with very fine, silk-like feathers, blue-black skin and bones, and five toes per foot (instead of the usual four).]
adjective
- Similar in appearance or texture (especially in softness and smoothness) to silk.
- Smooth and pleasant; seductive.
- (botany) Covered in long, slender, glistening hairs pressed close to the surface; sericeous.
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Examples of "silky" in Sentences
- The bamboo feels like silky cashmere.
- It is a silky brown form of corundum.
- The Silky Anteater defecates once a day.
- The silky anteater almost never reaches the ground.
- What connoisseurs call silky, the squeamish call slimy.
- Its entire coat is moderately long, silky and luxuriant.
- It is pallid to brownish beneath a silky fibrillose covering.
- They lack the soft silky plumage of the waxwings or silky flycatchers.
- All of these species have luxuriant silky coats and are powerful leapers.
- Plants such as the Silky aster which are native to the area and are very rare.
- To me, Evans is the epitome of what I consider smooth jazz, smooth as in silky and luminous.
- HAIR ON HAIR Carolina Herrera's catwalk models wore clips covered in silky hair securing their ponytails.
- A tad thinner, lighter, and "silky" - er feeling in the hand compared to the iPhone, Nexus One also sports a less cheap, more rubbery back.
- HILL: I know you're thinking it doesn't really look like a chicken, it's actually a bird known as a silky rooster, quite the head of hair there, feathers, whatever they maybe be.
- Catherine towered over me with her slender height, her sallow hair falling in silky ringlets over her dull cheeks, and when she spoke her voice rang sharp where mine would have growled with hoarseness.
- I reared several birds from the white Silk-hen by the Spanish cock: all were coal-black, and all plainly showed their parentage in having blackish combs and bones; none inherited the so-called silky feathers, and the non-inheritance of this character has been observed by others.
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