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silvery-white

ADJECTIVE
  1. of a white that resembles silver

How To Use silvery-white In A Sentence

  • The adult insect is a moth with silvery-white forewings and brown stripes and black markings on each wing tip.
  • The adult insect is a moth with silvery-white forewings and brown stripes and black markings on each wing tip.
  • They reminded me of bees and flies, and sometimes with a strong light on them they were like those small polished black and silvery-white beetles (Gyrinus) which we see in companies on the surface of pools and streams, perpetually gliding and whirling about in a sort of complicated dance. Afoot in England
  • Head, thorax, and legs black; the two former closely punctured and thinly covered with short cinereous pubescence; the metathorax with the punctures running into transverse striæ in the middle; the sides of the thorax and the legs with a fine silky silvery-white pile; the tibiæ and tarsi strongly spinose; wings fusco-hyaline; abdomen entirely red, smooth and shining. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • Thorax: the metathorax finely transversely rugose, the sides with bright silvery-white pubescence; the coxæ, the thorax beneath and on the sides, with fine silky sericeous pile; the anterior tibiæ and tarsi, and all the femora at their apex beneath, ferruginous; wings hyaline and iridescent, nervures black; the outer margin of the tegulæ testaceous. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • A silvery-white figure approached her, its edges blurred and its features undistinguishable.
  • Around this bundle of neurones, that is around the nerve, is still another wrapping, silvery-white, called the neurilemma. The Mind and Its Education
  • Lepra vulgaris was described as enlarging, sharply marginated erythematous plaques with silvery-white scale that occurred most frequently on the knees, and were associated with nail pitting. ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds
  • In 1751, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt of Sweden attempted to extract copper from the mineral niccolite and to his surprise got a silvery-white metal, instead of the copper. Nickel
  • The alligator had silvery-white ice caked around its lower body, so it couldn't move.
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