Silky

a.	1.	Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.
	2.	Hence, soft and smooth; as, silky wine.
	3.	Covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, as a leaf; sericeous. Silky oak (Bot.) a lofty Australian tree (Grevillea robusta) with silky tomentose lobed or incised leaves. It furnishes a valuable timber.

Adj.

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silky - having a smooth, gleaming surface; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters" Synonyms: glossy, satiny, silken, silklike, sleek, slick

attenuate, attenuated, buffed, burnished, capillary, cirrose, cirrous, cottony, dainty, deferential, delicate, disarming, downy, fibered, fibroid, fibrous, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, finished, flagelliform, flossy, fluffy, funicular, furbished, fuzzy, gauzy, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, glossy, gossamer, gossamery, hairlike, hairy, insinuating, insinuative, lacquered, ligamental, lustrous, plush, plushy, polished, pubescent, refined, ropy, rubbed, saccharine, satin, satinlike, satiny, sericeous, shellacked, shiny, silken, silklike, sleek, slick, smooth, soft, soft as silk, stringy, taeniate, taeniform, thin-spun, threadlike, thready, varnished, velutinous, velvetlike, velvety, wiredrawn, wiry

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