downiness
Example Sentences
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The downiness noticed on the underside of the Bullace leaves is here restricted to the ribs of the leaf.
From Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva by Step, Edward
"A baby that's loved and taken care of is just nothing but fine soft lawns and white downiness with the scent of fresh violets under leaves in the rain."
From Robin by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
The variety may also be known by the downiness of the young leaves, the calyx-tube, and the stalks.
From Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva by Step, Edward
You shall receive it, Miss O'Carroll, with all the gloss of novelty; fresh as a ripe green-gage in all the downiness of its bloom.
From Nightmare Abbey by Peacock, Thomas Love
The poplar foliage had the downiness of a Corot arbor; the green and silver trunks were as candid as the birches, as slender and lustrous as the limbs of a Pierrot.
From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair
