silky hair

collocation in English

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silky
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪl.ki/us
/ˈsɪl.ki/
soft and smooth, ...
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hair
noun[C or U]
uk
/heər/us
/her/
the mass of thin thread-like structures on the head of a person, or any of these structures that grow out of the skin of a person ...
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(Definition ofsilkyandhairfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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She is described as having longsilkyhairand green eyes.
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The seeds are compressed, broadly ovoid, with a tufted micropylar coma of longsilkyhair.
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Achenes are covered in finesilkyhair.
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Adult moths show considerable variation in size, but on average have a 125-150mm wingspan, the body being about 50mm long and densely covered insilkyhair.
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Its highly branching stems taper to twigs coated in soft, rough, or silky hairs and visible glands.
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The elongated silvery grey leaves clasp tightly to the stems and are covered in fine, silky hairs.
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The stems of the shrubs are dark when mature, covered with downy or silky hairs (tomentum) when young.
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The herbage is coated in silvery silky hairs.
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Flowers are borne in glomerules (clumps) of up to 25 flowers, each greenish-brown and covered with long silky hairs and spines on the calyx lobes.
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They are smooth-edged or serrated, glossy on the upper surface, and sometimes with silky hairs.
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The fruits are smooth milkweed pods which split open to spill seeds along with plentiful silky hairs.
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Most of the plant is covered in long, silky hairs.
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Both leaf surfaces are heavily covered with silky hairs that give it a wooly appearance.
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The leaves are imparipinnate, glabrous or with scattered hairs on the upper face and silky hairs on the underside.
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Adults have two pairs of wings with long, silky hairs.
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This is a small, tangled shrub under a meter in height with blunt, thorny branches covered in silky hairs and fuzzy linear leaves.
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Fine silky hairs are present on the undersides of the leaves and on the midrib.
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The leaf stalks 2 to 3 mm long, silky hairs only on young leaves.
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They contain numerous black seeds surrounded by silky hairs which enable them to be dispersed by the wind.
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