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2 unusual facts about Silky


Silky

Silkie, a variety of chicken believed to have originated in eastern Asia

Silky-flycatcher

They were formerly lumped with waxwings and Hypocolius in the family Bombycillidae, and they are listed in that family by the Sibley-Monroe checklist.


Beach pea

Lathyrus littoralis, a species of wild pea known by the common name silky beach pea.

Clothing in ancient Rome

A rare luxury cloth with a beautiful golden sheen, known as sea silk, was made from the long silky filaments or byssus produced by Pinna nobilis, a large Mediterranean seashell.

Connecticut shade tobacco

The former president of U.S. operations for Davidoff, a Swiss maker of luxury goods including premium Cuban cigars, praised Connecticut shade tobacco as "A nice Connecticut wrapper" and "…very silky, very fine. From a marketing point of view, it is considered at the moment to be one of the best tasting and looking wrappers available" in a Cigar Aficionado article on why the world's best cigars use Connecticut tobacco wrapper leaves.

Death of Marvin Gaye

In 1989, soul band Frankie Beverly & Maze produced the tribute song, "Silky Soul," taking its melody from "What's Going On." The song featured Nona Gaye in the video and later peaked at #5 on the R&B chart.

E. nivea

Eremophila nivea, the silky eremophila, a shrub species native to Western Australia

Ethmia pyrausta

Larva live in a thin silky spin between the leaves and flowers of Thalictrum aquilegiifolium, Thalictrum simplex and Thalictrum flavum.

G. robusta

Grevillea robusta, the southern silky oak, silky-oak or Australian Silver-oak, a tree species native of eastern coastal Australia

Inocybe geophylla

The fruiting body is a small all-white or cream mushroom with a fibrous silky umbonate cap and adnexed gills.

Silky shark

A scientific description of the silky shark was first published by the German biologists Johannes Müller and Jakob Henle under the name Carcharias (Prionodon) falciformis, in their 1839 Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen.

Sony Ericsson W910i

The W910i is available in six different colors which have been advertised as "Hearty Red", "Noble Black", "Havana Bronze", "Prime Silver", "Lipstick Pink" and "Silky White".

Types of cotton

Brazilian cotton is a perennial cotton with long, silky fibers.

Undulopsychopsis

The genus name Undulopsychopsis was coined by the researchers as a combination of the silky lacewing type genus Psychopsis and the Late Latin word undula meaning "small wave" which is in reference to the distinctly wavy nature of the wing margins.


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