close-textured

That cohesiveness is what gives pasta its close-textured silkenness.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

That cohesiveness is what gives pasta its close-textured silkenness.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

The softest are the close-textured sponges; for, by the way, the so-called sponges of Achilles are harder than these.

The History of Animals 2002

Of sponges there are three species; the first is of loose porous texture, the second is close textured, the third, which is nicknamed ‘the sponge of Achilles’, is exceptionally fine and close-textured and strong.

The History of Animals 2002

And this accounts for the fact that the sponges found in the Hellespont are rough and close-textured; and, as a general rule, sponges found beyond or inside Cape Malea are, respectively, comparatively soft or comparatively hard.

The History of Animals 2002

This species has the large open and visible pores, but all the rest of the body is close-textured; and, if it be dissected, it is found to be closer and more glutinous than the ordinary sponge, and, in a word, something lung like in consistency.

The History of Animals 2002

And membrane resembles a thin close-textured skin, but its qualities are different, as it admits neither of cleavage nor of extension.

The History of Animals 2002

And, by the way, the close-textured sponges are weaker than the more openly porous ones because their attachment extends over a smaller area.

The History of Animals 2002

I made coffee for us both and drank mine looking at her neat face, her blonde curving hair and her close-textured skin; and I wondered without confidence what I looked like to her.

Shattered Francis, Dick 2000

The hard indestructible siliceous grains, of which sand is composed, form a soil of an open texture, through which water readily permeates; while clay, from its fine state of division, and peculiar adhesiveness or plasticity, gives it a close-textured and retentive character, and their proper intermixture produces a light fertile loam, each tempering the peculiar properties of the other.

Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Thomas Anderson