silky : Idioms & Phrases

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red-flowered silky oak

  • noun tall shrub with cylindrical racemes of red flowers and pinnatifid leaves silky and grey beneath; eastern Australia
    Grevillea banksii.
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silky anteater

  • noun squirrel-sized South American toothless anteater with long silky golden fur
    two-toed anteater; Cyclopes didactylus.
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silky cornel

  • noun shrub of eastern North America having purplish stems and blue fruit
    Cornus amomum; silky cornel.
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silky dogwood

  • noun shrub of eastern North America having purplish stems and blue fruit
    Cornus amomum; silky cornel.
  • noun shrub of eastern North America closely resembling silky cornel
    Cornus obliqua.
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silky elm

  • noun large tree of Australasia
    booyong; brown oak; red beech; Terrietia trifoliolata; stave wood; crow's foot; Heritiera trifoliolata.
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Silky oak

  • noun medium to tall fast-growing tree with orange flowers and feathery bipinnate leaves silky-hairy beneath; eastern Australia
    Grevillea robusta.
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  • (Bot.), a lofty Australian tree (Grevillea robusta) with silky tomentose lobed or incised leaves. It furnishes a valuable timber.
Webster 1913

silky pocket mouse

  • noun small pale yellowish soft-furred rodent of southwestern United States and Mexico
    Perognathus flavus.
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silky tamarin

  • noun golden South American monkey with long soft hair forming a mane
    Leontocebus rosalia.
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silky terrier

  • noun Australian breed of toy dogs having a silky blue coat
    silky terrier.
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silky willow

  • noun small shrubby tree of western North America (Alaska to Oregon)
    Sitka willow; Salix sitchensis.
  • noun North American willow with greyish silky pubescent leaves that usually blacken in drying
    Salix sericea; silver willow; Salix alba sericea.
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silky wisteria

  • noun a wisteria of China having white flowers
    Wisteria venusta.
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silky-haired

  • adjective satellite having hair that resembles silk
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silky-leafed

  • adjective satellite having glossy leaves
    silky-leafed.
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silky-leaved

  • adjective satellite having glossy leaves
    silky-leafed.
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sydney silky

  • noun Australian breed of toy dogs having a silky blue coat
    silky terrier.
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