(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Harvest the bulbs once they reach 7-8cm across; if you cut them off at ground level rather than pulling the whole plant up, the roots should produce a second crop of feathery shoots.
(2) The radiographic features of renal coccidioidomycosis parallel those of renal tuberculosis, with feathery, moth-eaten calices, infundibular constriction and caliceal ballooning, and eventual calcification of granulomas.
(3) Then Murray goes on the front foot, jabbing away a volley to make it 40-15, but Federer then wrong-foots his foe with a feathery forehand at the net to hold.
(4) After a subsequent week of strict diabetic control, the feathery streak-like opacities had almost disappeared.
(5) Ballooning and feathery degeneration of hepatocytes, complete absence of fatty change, frequent occurrence of intracytoplasmic hyaline bodies, dissection of pseudolobules by fibrous septa and fibrosis around single cell were notable features.
(6) Beyond that, a ridge of feathery trees from where Isis snipers had been taking potshots at Kurdish positions.
(7) The stable forms differed from each other, but all had a tendency to brown rather than yellow pigmentation, to feathery submerged mycelium and to abnormal macroconidia.
(8) Following one month of poor diabetic control, a 54-year-old patient presented with a unilateral posterior subcapsular cataract, consisting of numerous fine, feathery, streak-like opacities radiating from a dense, round, central, posterior, subcapsular plaque.
(9) The calicivirus has a feathery edge, a six-pointed star with a dark hollow in the center (Star-of-David) appearance), and surface hollows that appear round or oval.
(10) irradiated colonies after initial 48 hours incubation at 37 degrees C and 10-20 days ageing at room temperature (22 to 25 degrees C), gave rise to feathery outbrusts.
(11) His feathery mohawk is even more preposterous than that of the man he's just replaced.
(12) People in morning coats and feathery hats arrive for a late lunch, no doubt straight from an investiture at nearby Buckingham Palace.
(13) Arthrography is preferred because it reveals superior anatomic detail thereby making differentiation between an encapsulated calf cyst, with smooth walls, and rupture, with irregular feathery margins, possible.
(14) "The hillside formed a tapestry of the blues and violets of flowering wild thyme," he recalled, "punctuated by bushes of wild rosemary, feathery shoots of wild fennel and the spring growth of oregano and winter savory – the poetry of Provence was in the air and tender tips of wild asparagus, invisible to the profane, were breaking the ground everywhere.
(15) Light microscopic examination revealed feathery, eosinophilic deposits on all three tissues; electron microscope studies showed the exfoilative deposits to be composed of a fine meshwork of fibrils ranging in size from 200-300 A. Fibrils were found on the apical surfaces of the epithelial cells, as well as on and throughout the epithelial cell basement membranes.
(16) Direct slit-lamp examination showed bilateral or unilateral, gray, band-shaped, and feathery opacities that sometimes appeared in whorled patterns.
(17) The coat protein of particles of sweet potato feathery mottle potyvirus (SPFMV) extracted from Ipomoea spp.
(18) In recent years similar brown, feathery forms of M. canis have been reported from monkeys but not from cats.
(19) Howard Jacobson Softcore porn is the literary equivalent of those feathery wimp-whips and talcum'd cufflinks you see in the windows of sex toy shops.
(20) SF were rather feathery and of slightly curvilinear appearance in living versus fixed, acetone-extracted cells.
Leathery
Definition:
(a.) Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sea turtles lay about 100 leathery-shelled eggs in a 25 cm diameter chamber carefully excavated about 50 cm deep in a nesting beach, where the eggs exchange gases (at approximately 28 degrees C) during their 60-day incubation period.
(2) An ancient woman with leathery skin sat behind the desk.
(3) Active coronal caries was present in only 11.6% of the subjects, whereas active (soft or leathery) root caries lesions were present in 31.5% of the subjects.
(4) Punk rock lives on through a network of leathery stoners and their dogs.
(5) Erythrodermic mastocytosis is a rare variant of diffuse cutaneous mastocytosis in which the skin becomes red, thickened, and lichenified and has a doughy consistency with multiple small papules on its surface, giving a leathery appearance to the skin.
(6) There are the black eyes, once compared to tiny oil wells, and the massive, leathery hands that erupt from his sleeves.
(7) The cutaneous manifestations of this syndrome include leathery thickening of the skin, hyperpigmentation and hypertrichosis.
(8) Within a period of 2-6 months all lesions had changed from soft, greasy and yellowish to leathery or hard, darkly discoloured tissue, indicating a gradual transition from active into inactive stages of caries.
(9) Burnett helped create Donald Trump – the man, the myth and the legend, all neatly wrapped into one leathery package.
(10) " His face creases up and he emits a deep, leathery laugh.
(11) He has the leathery complexion of someone who has spent long hours outdoors, and what looks like a black eye.
(12) We set up a prospective study to establish a hypothesis which could explain the formation of the typical leathery crust.
(13) The characteristics of chronologically aged skin should be differentiated from the features of photoaging, which is marked by yellowed, leathery, sagging, wrinkled, elastic skin, as well as underlying connective tissue damage and various benign, premalignant, and malignant neoplasms.
(14) They are large bipeds with big leathery wings, horns on their head and tails.
(15) We leapt up, inflated by Robin Cook ’s ethical foreign policy – only to come crashing down crotch-first on Blair’s hypocritical and leathery realpolitik.
(16) Lower down on the list of significance, many older people with leathery skin now regret their sun worshipping youth and their refusal of any sun block prophylactic.
(17) A 34-year-old woman presented with leathery thickening and haemorrhagic lesions of several finger- and toe-nails as first symptoms of an HTLV-I infection.
(18) The Caribou frontman may resemble a nerdy tour guide but here at Croatia’s Dimensions festival he’s as revered as any leathery DJ legend.
(19) Many species of skates and ray and some sharks reproduce by laying leathery eggcases, which remain on the seabed or attached to seaweed for several months while the embryo develops into a miniature version of the adult.
(20) Among countless bars offering loud rock, a fistful worth checking are Cool Arrows (1025 Nogalitos Street) and Saluté International Bar (2801 N Saint Mary's), both featuring Tejano bands and DJs; Casbeers , founded in 1932, has recently shifted to 1150 South Alamo St and offers fine food and leathery singer-songwriters; Cowboys Dancehall (3030 North East Loop 410) lives up to its name, with everyone wearing Stetsons and line dancing to slick country bands.