Crossword-Solution: SERICEOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sericeous | a. | Of or pertaining to silk; consisting of silk; silky. |
| Sericeous | a. | Covered with very soft hairs pressed close to the surface; as, a sericeous leaf. |
| Sericeous | a. | Having a silklike luster, usually due to fine, close hairs. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with SERICEOUS (5)
Two proteads, probably GREVILLEAS, were found here.[*] [* The one with singularly thick, firm, and rigid leaves, a foot long, linear attenuated at each extremity, pubescenti-sericeous, striated: the other with white acerose leaves pinnated in two pairs.
Thorax: the disk very closely punctured, the metathorax rugose; the sides and the legs with a fine glittering sericeous pile, the wings subhyaline, their apical margins fuscous, the nervures fuscous.
Abdomen smooth and shining; the apical margins of the intermediate segments slightly depressed, with the sides sericeous.
Thorax: the metathorax finely transversely rugose, the sides with bright silvery-white pubescence; the coxæ, the thorax beneath and on the sides, with fine silky sericeous pile; the anterior tibiæ and tarsi, and all the femora at their apex beneath, ferruginous; wings hyaline and iridescent, nervures black; the outer margin of the tegulæ testaceous.
Abdomen shining, and with a fine silvery sericeous pile; the apical margins of the segments narrowly rufo-piceous; the terminal segment with an elongate, smooth, shining space, which extends to the apex, which is testaceous.