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Feathery synonyms

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plumed
Provided or adorned with one or more plumes or plumelike structures:
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  1. Provided or adorned with one or more plumes or plumelike structures:
  2. Having hair that resembles a plume, as in being long and fluffy:
fluffy
Soft and light like fluff; feathery
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  1. Soft and light like fluff; feathery
  2. Covered with fluff
  3. Light and airy; soft:
downy
Resembling down:
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  1. Resembling down:
  2. Quietly soothing; soft.
  3. Of or covered with soft, fine feathers or hair
Find another word for feathery. In this page you can discover 5 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for feathery, like: plumed, fluffy, downy, downy and light.

Sentence Examples

  • This pappus is either simple (pilose) or feathery (plumose).

  • The plant is monoecious, producing the staminate (male) flowers in a large feathery panicle at the summit, and the (female) dense spikes of flowers, or " cobs," in the axils of the leaves below, the long pink styles hanging out like a silken tassel.

  • The stamens are placed round the base of the ovary, which is rounded or oblong, much smaller than the glumes, covered with down, and surmounted by two short styles, extending into feathery brush-like stigmas.

  • Lankha's hands were covered in what felt like soft, feathery, cool micro-suede.

  • - Flower of a grass with glumes removed, showing three stamens and two feathery styles.

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