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silvery-white

ADJECTIVE
  1. of a white that resembles silver

How To Use silvery-white In A Sentence

  • In 1751, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt of Sweden attempted to extract copper from the mineral niccolite and to his surprise got a silvery-white metal, instead of the copper. Nickel
  • Lithium, the lightest metal, is in a group of elements called alkali metals or Group I elements and is silvery-white in color. Lithium
  • The adult insect is a moth with silvery-white forewings and brown stripes and black markings on each wing tip.
  • These patches may have a thick silvery-white scale of dead skin on the top, and may be itchy.
  • In breeding plumage, it has a light gray mantle with silvery-white primaries.
  • Abdomen shining and rather finely punctured; the basal segment narrow and campanulate; the margins of the segments thickly fringed with silvery-white hair; the cheeks, sides of the thorax, and beneath the legs and abdomen with scattered long silvery-white hairs. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • Needles are 2-6 cm long, flattened, strongly waxy and silvery-white on the lower surface, green above, mostly 2-ranked, spreading horizontally, not concealing the upper surface of twigs, the needles 1-ranked and spiraled higher on the tree; resin canals marginal, located near the lower epidermis; stomatal rows absent on the upper surface at midleaf, 5-7 stomatal rows on each side of midrib of lower surface. Grand fir
  • Skin, or pellicle, reddish-brown, changing to silvery-white about the base of the leaves; the latter being fistulous, and about a foot in height. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
  • The alligator had silvery-white ice caked around its lower body, so it couldn't move.
  • The adult insect is a moth with silvery-white forewings and brown stripes and black markings on each wing tip.
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