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Like silky down
Answer for the clue "Like silky down ", 6 letters:
flossy
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Word definitions for flossy in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Resembling floss.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. like down or as soft as down [syn: downy , downlike , fluffy ] [also: flossiest , flossier ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flossy \Floss"y\ (?; 115), a. Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"resembling floss," 1817, from floss (n.) + -y (2).
Usage examples of flossy.
Within a couple of the cocoons were dark shapes, curled like question marks, but they were so heavily swaddled in flossy filaments that I could make out no details of them.
Flossy catkins of the later kinds, fern-sprouts like bishops’ croziers, the square-headed moschatel, the odd cuckoo-pint,—like an apoplectic saint in a niche of malachite,—snow-white ladies’-smocks, the toothwort, approximating to human flesh, the enchanter’s night-shade, and the black-petaled doleful-bells, were among the quainter objects of the vegetable world in and about Weatherbury at this teeming time.