spectrally

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.83 in modern English

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"Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one’s very heart, - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life."
"Nautilus come from deepwater where the light is spectrally blue and not very bright."

Etymology tree English spectral Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English spectrally From spectral + -ly.

more spectrally (comparative) most spectrally (superlative)

hyperspectrally multispectrally

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