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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Primitive echinoderms having five or more feathery arms radiating from a central disk.
  原始的棘皮动物，有五只或更多的软臂从中心圆盘放射状伸出。
• 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 morning, it began to snow with feathery flakes. I liked the snow shower and started to play in the snow with my buddies.
  留学解答资讯网：1。今天早晨下起了鹅毛般的大雪，我非常喜欢，便和小伙伴在雪中玩耍。
• The tops of feathery palm trees.
  羽毛状棕榈树的树顶。
• Typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae.
  典型的晨昏或夜间活动的昆虫，身体短胖，触角柔软如发。
• Feathery palm trees. monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
  澳大拉西亚一个单子叶棕榈树属。
• 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。