Adjective: sericeous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more sericeous |
| Superlative | most sericeous |
Sample Sentences
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sericeous color
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a sericeous leaf
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sericeous ovary
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sericeous pubescence
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sericeous stalk
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sericeous surface of leaves
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sericeous spot of hairs
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sericeous pile
Adjectives inflected like sericeous
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin sēricus (“silken”), sēricum (“Seric material; silk”), from Sēricus (“belonging to the Seres”): Sērēs, Ancient Greek Σῆρες (Sêres, “a people of Eastern Asia, the modern Chinese, celebrated for their silken fabrics”). Compare silk, serge. See: Latin Adjectives '
sēricus'.