whitish

Modifying Another Word

usually: These are usually whitish in color, and there may be yellowish mucus trailing from them.

Modifies a noun

• flower: In the Mendoza bag there are the seeds or berries of what appears to be a small potato plant with a whitish flower.
• egg: Biology The female beetle lays the whitish eggs in or on a suitable larval food.
• color: Its skin is flaking or peeling and appears to have a whitish color in bits.
• underparts: Both sexes have a chestnut mantle and whitish underparts with brown streaks, but the female is duller than the male.
• coating: Look for distorted growth and a whitish fluffy coating on bark.
• patch: In extreme cases, skin can become red, start bleeding or develop whitish patches.

Used with adjective complement

appear: If the albite layers are too thick this schiller appears whitish which is less attractive.

Preposition: in

color: Add the chicken and stir fry until the chicken is whitish in color.