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Definition of "cushiony" []

  • Like a cushion; soft and yielding. (adjective)

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Use "cushiony" in a sentence
  • "Australia, there came into the country an insect pest called the cushiony scale, which settled on the orange trees and seemed likely to destroy them."
  • "It was not long before two "cushiony" figures, as large as"
  • "Down through the ages education, religion, environment, and other special influences have no doubt played a small part in influencing and determining hereditary characteristics; just as environment in the ages past changed the foot of the evolving horse from a flat, "cushiony" foot with many toes (much needed in the soft bog of his earlier existence) into the "hoof foot" of later days, when harder soil and necessity for greater fleetness, assisted by some sort of "selection" and "survival," conspired to give us the foot of our modern horse, and this story is all plainly and serially told in the fossil and other remains found in our own hemisphere."
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