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# downy

«downy» in Mova's school dictionary: **soft and fluffy, like the fine, light feathers of a young…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (downy, downier, downiest)

### meaning for a pupil

soft and fluffy, like the fine, light feathers of a young bird [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downy/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a bird's or baby's soft, thin covering of feathers or hair

### examples

- The duckling had downy yellow feathers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downy/#x1)
- Dandelion seeds look soft and downy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downy/#x2)
- The baby's head was covered with downy hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downy/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «downy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.