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

• And one day we started saving up for a couple of lovebirds of our own: the feathery kind.
  我们开始攒钱给自己买一对情侣鹦鹉，羽毛轻软的那种。
• Delicate feathery shield fern of the eastern United states; sometimes placed in genus thelypteris.
  美国东部一种纤细的羽叶盾蕨；有时归为金星蕨属。
• 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。
• ( 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
• As each years snow accumulation lay on the surface, evaporation and melting caused the snowflakes slowly to lose their feathery points and become tiny grains of ice.
  由于每年的雪花积累在表面之上，蒸发和融化使得雪花慢慢失去其羽状尖端而变成微小的冰粒。
• The tadpoles have feathery external gills.
  蝌蚪长有羽毛似的外鳃。
• 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。
• He's almost totally bald, but makes up for it with exceptionally long and feathery eyebrows which look eager to take flight.
  他几乎完全秃顶，却有一对长而飘逸的眉毛，看似渴望升空飞翔。
• 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。
• Marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces. small freshwater crustaceans with a shield-shaped carapace.
  海生甲壳动物，有羽毛状捕食的附肢；幼体独立游水；成体形成硬壳附着生活于水下。小型淡水甲壳动物，长有盾牌状甲壳。