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Sericeous

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to silk; consisting of, or resembling silk; silky.

    "sericeous color"

  2. 2
    Covered with very soft hairs pressed close to the surface.

    "a sericeous leaf"

  3. 3
    Having a silky lustre, usually due to fine, close hairs

    "sericeous spot of hairs"

Adjective
  1. 1
    covered with fine soft hairs or down wordnet

Etymology

From Latin sēricus (“silken”), sēricum (“Seric material; silk”), from Sēricus (“belonging to the Seres”): Sērēs, Ancient Greek Σῆρες (Sêres, “a people of Eastern Asia, the modern Chinese, celebrated for their silken fabrics”). Compare silk, serge.

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