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Sericeous adj.

Of or pertaining to silk; consisting of silk; silky.

(Bot.) Covered with very soft hairs pressed close to the surface; as, a sericeous leaf.

(Zool.) Having a silklike luster, usually due to fine, close hairs.

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Etymology of 'Sericeous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sericeous" Quotes from Famous Books

... in an open patch of forest land, covered with grass, and the trees consisted principally of Moreton Bay ash, (a species of eucalyptus), Casuarina, and a rather large-growing Acacia, with broad, rhomboidal, sericeous phyllodia, ...

— Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John MacGillivray

... singularly thick, firm, and rigid leaves, a foot long, linear attenuated at each extremity, pubescenti-sericeous, striated: the other with white acerose leaves pinnated in two pairs. Both were large forest trees, neither in flower nor ...

— Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia • Thomas Mitchell