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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Scientists are now finally meeting animals on their own terms instead of treating them like furry ( or feathery) humans, and this shift is fundamentally reshaping our understanding.
  现在，科学家们终于根据动物自身的情况来对待它们，不再把它们当作毛茸茸（或是长着羽毛）的人类，这个转变从根本上重塑了我们对动物的看法。
• Genus of South American shrubs or lianas having large flower heads with feathery pappuses.
  美洲灌木或攀缘植物的一个属，大头状花序，羽状冠毛。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。