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| 1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) | ||
sericeous
adj 1: covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy milkweed
seeds" [syn: downy, pubescent, puberulent,
sericeous]
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| 2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Sericeous \Se*ri"ceous\, a. [L. sericus silken, sericum Seric stuff, silk, fr. Sericus belonging to the Seres, Gr. ???, a people of Eastern Asia, the modern Chinese, celebrated for their silken fabrics. Cf. Silk, Serge a woolen stuff.] 1. Of or pertaining to silk; consisting of silk; silky. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) Covered with very soft hairs pressed close to the surface; as, a sericeous leaf. [1913 Webster] 3. (Zool.) Having a silklike luster, usually due to fine, close hairs. [1913 Webster] | ||
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