Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sericeous"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sericeous \Se*ri"ceous\, a. [L. sericus silken, sericum Seric
stuff, silk, fr. Sericus belonging to the Seres, Gr. ???, a
people of Eastern Asia, the modern Chinese, celebrated for
their silken fabrics. Cf. {Silk}, {Serge} a woolen stuff.]
1. Of or pertaining to silk; consisting of silk; silky.
2. (Bot.) Covered with very soft hairs pressed close to the
surface; as, a sericeous leaf.
3. (Zo["o]l.) Having a silklike luster, usually due to fine,
close hairs.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sericeous
adj : (biology) covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy
milkweed seeds" [syn: {downy}, {pubescent}, {puberulent}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.