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Adjective: silvery  sil-v(u-)ree
  1. Resembling or reminiscent of silver
    "singing in her silvery tones";
    - silvern
     
  2. Having the white lustrous sheen of silver
    "a land of silvery rivers where the salmon leap"; "repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen";
    - silver, silvern
     
  3. Of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the colour of silver
    "silvery hair";
    - argent, silver, silverish

See also: achromatic, bright, euphonious, euphonous, neutral

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