sericeous

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of or relating to silk; consisting of, or resembling silk; silky.
    — sericeous color
  2. Covered with very soft hairs pressed close to the surface.
    — a sericeous leaf
  3. Having a silky lustre, usually due to fine, close hairs
    — sericeous spot of hairs

词形变化

more sericeous comparative most sericeous superlative sericious alternative

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词源

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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