Silvery vs Silversword - What's the difference?
silvery | silversword |
Resembling silver in color, shiny white.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
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, title= Sprinkled or covered with silver.
Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.
Any member of the genus of flowering plants native to Hawaii, with long, narrow leaves sometimes covered in silvery hairs.
*2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 37:
*:It takes the silversword twenty years to screw up the energy for its final floral pyrotechnic.
As an adjective silvery
is resembling silver in color, shiny white.As a noun silversword is
any member of the genus genus: Argyroxiphium of flowering plants native to Hawaii, with long, narrow leaves sometimes covered in silvery hairs.silvery
English
Adjective
(er)- All the enameled race, whose silvery wing / Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.
Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
