silveryとは

形容詞

silvery (comparative silverier, superlative silveriest)

1. Resembling silver in color, shiny white.
   • Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

     All the enameled race, whose silvery wing / Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.

   • 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:

     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.

2. Sprinkled or covered with silver.
3. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.

   a silvery laugh‎

派生語

名詞

silver Y (複数形 silver Ys)

1. A species of moth, Autographa gamma, having a distinctive Y-shaped mark on its forewings.
   • 1992, BBC Wildlife, vol. 11, p. 69:

     The differences between the silver-y moth and its two newly described siblings – Autographa messmeri and A. voelkeri – are rather less obvious.

   • 2015, Norman Maclean, A Less Green and Pleasant Land, p. 223:

     There are a few day-flying exceptions such as hummingbird hawk-moths, silver Ys, cinnabars, scarlet tigers and burnets but, in general, knowledge of moths lags behind that of butterflies.

   • 2016, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian, 11 July:

     Ronaldo’s moth was one of thousands of Silver Y moths, a migratory species that moves north through Europe each summer in search of new breeding grounds, returning south in the autumn.

同意語

• Y-moth