Examples of 'downy' in a sentence
Meaning of "downy"
Downy refers to something that is covered with soft, fine hairs or feathers, giving a soft and velvety texture
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- Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair.
- Sharp-witted, perceptive.
- Low-spirited; down in the mouth.
- A blanket filled with down; a duvet.
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Her downy feathers soften the landing.
The rudiments of mandibles and downy palpae.
Downy mildew survives in infected leaves and on seed.
She kneeled to devour the downy innocent.
The downy undercoat of cashmere goats.
The shoots and leaf stalks are downy.
We need all the downy innocents we can get.
A few broccoli varieties are resistant to downy mildew.
Trimming the downy hair around the neckline.
She kneeIed to devour the downy innocent.
Downy mildew on hops has a polycyclic disease cycle.
Lesions can resemble those of downy mildew.
Downy mildew is a major disease of onion.
You bet your downy derrière.
Downy and able to follow mother.
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The shoots are downy when young.
He did not pay they burnt their restaurant downy.
There lies a downy feather which stirs not.
Kind health descends on downy wings.
As white and downy as a cotton flower.
Just step up to the edge and look downy.
The numerous downy hairs are regenerated.
The new leaves are paler and finely downy.
The central part became downy on further cultivation.
The spikelets are flattened and usually hairy or downy.
It is commonly called downy wood mint.
Downy mildew infections often lead to premature leaf drop.
New branchlets covered with soft downy hairs.
A downy frame around a painting as beautiful as the portrait itself.
Its small branches are covered in downy hairs.
Downy mildews become resistant to many fungicides very quickly.
These usually have downy margins.
Downy mildew can devastate a crop in a short amount of time.
Most of them are called downy mildews.
He has downy ginger hair and a fading ginger beard.
He once confused a pileated woodpecker with a downy woodpecker.
Cucurbit downy mildew only affects leaves of cucurbit plants.
Fungicides can also be applied to control downy mildew.
As downy as the fluttering bees.
Some leaves will be downy underneath.
The downy hair seen.
This variety is resistant to downy mildew.
Ensure your child wears downy or woollen garments in winter.
Vines were visually examined for symptoms of downy mildew.
I have a bit of downy fluff around that bottom area.
Downy and powdery mildews.
Controls downy mildew only.
There is another of those if you can downy him a message.
Mild symptoms of downy mildew were observed in the control vines.
And covered in a downy fur.
