feathery

英 [ˈfeðəri]

美 [ˈfeðəri]

adj.  轻软的; 羽毛似的

BNC.21229 / COCA.17736

牛津词典

adj.

• 轻软的；羽毛似的
  light and soft; like feathers

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 羽毛似的;羽状的;轻薄的;绒绒的
  If something isfeathery, it has an edge divided into a lot of thin parts so that it looks soft.
  1. The foliage was soft and feathery.
     叶子如羽毛般轻软柔和。
• ADJ-GRADED 轻软的;轻柔的
  Featheryis used to describe things that are soft and light.
  1. ...flurries of small, feathery flakes of snow.
     飘洒着轻柔小雪花的阵雪

英英释义

adj

• adorned with feathers or plumes
  Synonym:featheredplumy
• characterized by a covering of feathers
  1. the feathery congregation of jays
• resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers
  1. feathery palm trees
  Synonym:featherlike

双语例句

• Aquatic North American salamander with red feathery external gills.
  北美长有红色柔软如羽毛的外部鳃的水栖蝾螈。
• Free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms; found on muddy sea bottoms.
  自由飘浮的无柄海百合，有十只羽状的手臂；多见于多泥的海底。
• Northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles.
  东北非热带植物，有羽状圆锥花序。
• ( biology) having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft. Effect of Several Treatments on some Character of Bore-cole
  （生物学）有装饰性的羽毛或者羽毛状的丛毛。几种处理对羽衣甘蓝若干性状的影响
• Being the precocious type, I married relatively young, had kids young and got divorced young. There was a heap of old feathery wood-ashes on the hearth.
  我比较早熟，年纪轻轻就结婚生子，又在仍旧年纪轻轻的时候离了婚。壁炉上有&堆轻轻的陈年的柴灰。
• The tadpoles have feathery external gills.
  蝌蚪长有羽毛似的外鳃。
• Dasey was only just conscious, but she was able to communicate with a faint nod, and a feathery touch of her fingers on the back of my hand.
  德茜仅仅是有知觉，但她能用微微的点头和在我的手背上轻轻抚摩进行交流。
• This spectacle drove me back immediately; I took my hat, and, after a four-miles'walk, arrived at Heathcliff's garden-gate just in time to escape the first feathery flakes of a snow-shower.
  我拿了我的帽子，走了四英里的路，刚刚到希斯克利夫先生家的花园门口，天上也飘起了雪花。
• Large rhizomatous perennial grasses found by riversides and in ditches having jointed stems and large gray-white feathery panicles.
  多年生有根茎的高大的草本植物，见于河边、水沟，茎有接头，有巨大的灰白色羽状圆锥花序。
• Large treelike shrub having feathery leaves and clusters of large yellow flower heads; coastal southern california.
  象树一样的大灌木具有羽状的叶子和大的黄色花序；分布于加利福尼亚南海岸。