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 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 foliage was soft and feathery.
  叶子如羽毛般轻软柔和。
• 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。
• The tops of feathery palm trees.
  羽毛状棕榈树的树顶。
• 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。
• Feathery palm trees. monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
  澳大拉西亚一个单子叶棕榈树属。
• 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。
• Vine with feathery leaves and white or pinkish flowers; sometimes placed in genus Fumaria.
  有皮革似叶子和粉白色花的藤蔓植物；有时归为蓝堇属。
• 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。
• 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。