Sentence examples for downy from inspiring English sources

The young are black and downy.

The chicks have thick downy gray feathers.

The downy young fend for themselves almost at once but remain with their parents during the first summer.

The order includes such familiar birds as the European great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) and green woodpecker (Picus viridis) and the American flicker (Colaptes auratus) and downy woodpecker (D. pubescens).

The young are downy and hatch with their eyes closed.

The difference in diameter between the guard hairs and the downy fibre is not so great as it is in cashmere.

On the affected areas of the scalp a downy hair called vellus replaces the former long, sturdy, pigmented terminal hair.

Examples of obligate parasites are the downy mildews, the powdery mildews, and the rusts.

It usually bears two heart-shaped, downy leaves and a single inconspicuous cup-shaped flower.

Pale green to yellow or brown areas usually develop on the upper leaf surface opposite the downy growth.

Young gruiforms are downy plain black in rails, dark brown in limpkins, and variously patterned in most other groups.