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whitish

[hwahy-tish, wahy-] / ˈʰwaɪ tɪʃ, ˈwaɪ- /






ADJECTIVE
snowy
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“Here you can see a lot of these pores are now filled with whitish specks,” says Dr Voight, handling a sample of drilled out rock.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2024

Krupp described the corona as a “pearly whitish halo of light around the sun, but has streamers going in various directions.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2024

It may begin with loss of sensation on whitish patches of skin or reddened skin.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2024

Whereas coralline algae form thin, hard crusts that are pink or whitish, peyssonnelid algae make thicker, brown or dark red crusts that are often a little squishy above a hard base.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 6, 2023

For once he found him hard at work, his lower lip stuck out, his whitish pig-lashes wet.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes




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