Assertion: blue jay's feather | /r/HasProperty | blue
Facets:
value: to the casual observer
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for the same reason
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: As with peacocks, blue jay feathers are actually brown, but appear blue because of light interference from the feather structure.
text: Writing in the November 5, 1998, issue of Nature, Rick Prum, an ornithologist at the University of Kansas, argued that blue feathers don’t look blue for the same reason the sky does, they look blue for the same reason oil slicks do.
text: As with peacocks, blue jay feathers are actually brown, but appear blue because of light interference from the feather structure.
text: The blue jay, despite its name, has only either black or white feathers, and not blue plumage, though its feathers appear blue to the casual observer.