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silvery

sil·very

UK/ˈsɪlvəɹi/ US/ˈsɪlvɹi/ uncommon

adjective

1.

lustrous gray; covered with or tinged with the color of silver

  • “silvery hair”
2.

resembling or reminiscent of silver

  • “a soft silvern voice”
  • “singing in her silvery tones”
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3.

having the white lustrous sheen of silver

  • “a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap”
  • “repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen”
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Origin

From Middle English silvery, sylvyry; equivalent to silver + -y.

Phrases

  • silvery acacia
  • silvery flying fox
  • silvery gade
  • silvery gibbon
  • silvery gull
  • silvery hair-grass
  • silvery hair-tail
  • silvery-cheeked antshrike

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