feathery

adj.

1. 轻软的；羽毛似的
   light and soft; like feathers

1. ADJ-GRADED 羽毛似的;羽状的;轻薄的;绒绒的
   If something is feathery, 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。
2. ADJ-GRADED 轻软的;轻柔的
   Feathery is 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

1. The foliage was soft and feathery.
   叶子如羽毛般轻软柔和。
2. Originally meaning pipe or flute the feathery bit at the top is the bamboo radical, indicating a section of bamboo culm gu ǎ n later evolved into a verb meaning to manage or to be in charge of.
   这个汉字的本意是管道或长笛，上面是竹字头，表示是竹秆的一部分。管字后来发展成动词，意思为管理或负责。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. He's almost totally bald, but makes up for it with exceptionally long and feathery eyebrows which look eager to take flight.
   他几乎完全秃顶，却有一对长而飘逸的眉毛，看似渴望升空飞翔。
6. This morning, it began to snow with feathery flakes. I liked the snow shower and started to play in the snow with my buddies.
   留学解答资讯网：1。今天早晨下起了鹅毛般的大雪，我非常喜欢，便和小伙伴在雪中玩耍。
7. 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。
8. Dasey was only just conscious, but she was able to communicate with a faint nod, and a feathery touch of her fingers on the back of my hand.
   德茜仅仅是有知觉，但她能用微微的点头和在我的手背上轻轻抚摩进行交流。
9. 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。
10. Any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive.
    各种小型至微小型的吸食类昆虫，若有翅膀即是窄而有毛；以树汁为食，其中许多都有破坏性。
11. Feathery palm trees. monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
    澳大拉西亚一个单子叶棕榈树属。
12. ( biology) having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft. Effect of Several Treatments on some Character of Bore-cole
    （生物学）有装饰性的羽毛或者羽毛状的丛毛。几种处理对羽衣甘蓝若干性状的影响
13. 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。
14. Northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles.
    东北非热带植物，有羽状圆锥花序。
15. 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。
16. The tadpoles have feathery external gills.
    蝌蚪长有羽毛似的外鳃。
17. Feathery fern of tropical Asia and Malaysia.
    亚洲和马来西亚的一种羽状蕨类。
18. 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。
19. Spanish grass with light feathery panicles grown for dried bouquets.
    西班牙一种草本植物，轻薄的羽毛状圆锥花序，用作干花。
20. The tops of feathery palm trees.
    羽毛状棕榈树的树顶。
21. 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。
22. Vine with feathery leaves and white or pinkish flowers; sometimes placed in genus Fumaria.
    有皮革似叶子和粉白色花的藤蔓植物；有时归为蓝堇属。
23. 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。
24. The ghostly looking Mexican axolotl retains some of its larval features for life, including its feathery pink external gills.
    一副可怕的模样是墨西哥的蝾螈保留一些它的幼虫的特征为了生活，包括它的柔软如毛的粉红色外表的腮。
25. Free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms; found on muddy sea bottoms.
    自由飘浮的无柄海百合，有十只羽状的手臂；多见于多泥的海底。
26. Large treelike shrub having feathery leaves and clusters of large yellow flower heads; coastal southern california.
    象树一样的大灌木具有羽状的叶子和大的黄色花序；分布于加利福尼亚南海岸。
27. A low tuberculate cactus with white feathery spines; northeastern Mexico.
    低矮的长有小球的仙人掌，有白色羽毛状的刺；墨西哥东北部。
28. This spectacle drove me back immediately; I took my hat, and, after a four-miles'walk, arrived at Heathcliff's garden-gate just in time to escape the first feathery flakes of a snow-shower.
    我拿了我的帽子，走了四英里的路，刚刚到希斯克利夫先生家的花园门口，天上也飘起了雪花。
29. 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。
30. Aquatic North American salamander with red feathery external gills.
    北美长有红色柔软如羽毛的外部鳃的水栖蝾螈。

adj

1. adorned with feathers or plumes

   Synonym:    featheredplumy

2. characterized by a covering of feathers
   1. the feathery congregation of jays

3. resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers
   1. feathery palm trees

   Synonym:    featherlike