silky

adjective

Made of silk; silken.

adjective

Resembling silk; smooth or lustrous.

adjective

Covered with or characterized by fine soft hairs or feathers.

adjective

Pleasantly agreeable, as to the ear.

adjective

Suave or ingratiating.

Having the qualities or properties of silk, as smoothness and luster; sericeous.

Same as silken.

In botany, covered with long, very slender, close-pressed, glistening hairs; sericeous.

Smooth to the taste.

noun

The silk-fowl: the more usual name in America.