Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Covered with soft silky hairs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing, pertaining to, or consisting of silk; having the character of silk; silky.
- Resembling silk; silky or satiny in appearance; smooth, soft, and shiny, as the plumage of a bird, the surface of an insect, etc.
- In botany, silky; covered with soft shining hairs pressed close to the surface: as, a sericeous leaf.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to silk; consisting of silk; silky.
- adjective (Bot.) Covered with very soft hairs pressed close to the surface.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having a silklike luster, usually due to fine, close hairs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to
silk ; consisting of silk;silky . - adjective botany Covered with very soft
hairs pressed close to the surface. - adjective zoology Having a silky
lustre , usually due to fine, close hairs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective covered with fine soft hairs or down
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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DAVIESIA, JACKSONIA, and two or three dwarf species of ACACIA, one of which was very showy, about three feet high, with very small oblong, sericeous phyllodia, and globular heads of bright yellow flowers, produced in great abundance on axillary fascicles; also a very fine leguminous shrub, bearing the habit and appearance of
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Abdomen smooth and shining; the apical margins of the intermediate segments slightly depressed, with the sides sericeous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Abdomen shining, and with a fine silvery sericeous pile; the apical margins of the segments narrowly rufo-piceous; the terminal segment with an elongate, smooth, shining space, which extends to the apex, which is testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Thorax: the metathorax finely transversely rugose, the sides with bright silvery-white pubescence; the coxæ, the thorax beneath and on the sides, with fine silky sericeous pile; the anterior tibiæ and tarsi, and all the femora at their apex beneath, ferruginous; wings hyaline and iridescent, nervures black; the outer margin of the tegulæ testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Thorax: the disk very closely punctured, the metathorax rugose; the sides and the legs with a fine glittering sericeous pile, the wings subhyaline, their apical margins fuscous, the nervures fuscous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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It is closely allied to undidatiis, Say, but is more sericeous, the elytial lines are not so dilated or confluent, &c.
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[The one with singularly thick, firm, and rigid leaves, a foot long, linear attenuated at each extremity, pubescenti-sericeous, striated: the other with white acerose leaves pinnated in two pairs.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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*] [* The one with singularly thick, firm, and rigid leaves, a foot long, linear attenuated at each extremity, pubescenti-sericeous, striated: the other with white acerose leaves pinnated in two pairs.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
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