| 单词 |
silver-coloured |
| 释义 |
silver-coloured, a. [silver n. 17.] Having the colour of silver; of a greyish white hue with a metallic lustre.
1594? Greene Selimus 154 Aged winter hath besprent my head With a hoarfrost of silver-coloured hairs. 1611Cotgr., Ravel,..a little sea-fish, that hath..a siluer-coloured bellie. 1679M. Rusden Further Disc. Bees 5 Having three partitions in his belly, with silver-coloured lines going cross. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 163 The Silver [Rosemary] denominated from its Silver-colour'd Leaves. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1824) III. 228 It has also four expansive silver-coloured wings. 1831A. Wilson's Amer. Ornith. IV. 358 Silver coloured tern. Sterna argentacea. 1871Darwin Desc. Man ii. xv. (1890) 446 Dragons not rarely produce silver-coloured birds. |

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