(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.
Plumose
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Plumous
Example Sentences:
(1) The large plumose setae are studied in Palaemon serratus (Decapoda) and Sphaeroma serratum (Isopoda) during premolt.
(2) Near the posterior border of the lingual zone covered by plumose papillae, mucous cells begin to appear in the glandular epithelium.
(3) The third quarter of the tongue is covered by papillae of novel morphology that we have named "plumose papillae."
(4) In both sexes the swimmeret rami are lined by "feathered hairs" (plumose setae).
(5) That portion of the dorsal surface of the tongue of Anolis carolinensis that is covered by plumose papillae is underlaid by a series of tubular salivary glands that open between the papillae; glands persist into the posterior zone of the tongue, where they open between cylindriform papillae.
(6) The plumose papillae and their retinue of plume cells are unique morphological structures that may be important in mastication and deglutition of food.