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feathery

/feth-uh-ree/US // ˈfɛð ə ri //

羽翼丰满,羽毛状的,羽翼丰满的,羽毛状

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : clothed or covered with feathers; feathered.
    • : resembling feathers; light; airy; unsubstantial: feathery clouds.

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Examples

  • Eventually, shaving weight comes at the expense of stability and dampness, and many skiers know that feathery backcountry skis tend to skitter on resort hardpack.

  • Fresh tarragon and Comte cheese inform his soft gnocchi, gathered with diced squash and feathery maitake mushrooms and finished with more grated cheese, which melts to form a delicious web over the dish.

  • They formed narrow, feathery bands in the sky oriented from southwest to northeast.

  • The LisHawk follows in the feathery footsteps of a similar robo-bird called the PigeonBot, which debuted back in January.

  • The team later took photographs and TikTok videos with the tiny feathery guest before letting it fly on its way.

  • The creation has a feathery train and a ragged flow of ruffled panels, which create the body of the dress and extend to the floor.

  • Feathery and light, it can prepare the ground for all that follows.

  • One day in Pennsylvania, he slaughtered 70 pheasant in a fine display of feathery carnage.

  • When rapidly deposited, as by artificial precipitation, triple phosphate often takes feathery, star- or leaf-like forms.

  • It was about a foot high with branching leaves and a fine feathery white flower.

  • Tussocks of feathery grass covered the rough surface of the ground, and out of these the larks soared into the hate of sunshine.

  • A little distance off, the feathery branches of a larch waved softly to and fro in the scarcely perceptible night-breeze.

  • On their poles in their house all the White Wyandottes perched like feathery balls, their heads sunk low on their breasts.