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papery
adjective as in flimsy
adjective as in paper
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The biggest turtle eggs today are just a few inches long, with papery thin shells.
An inspector in 2016 flagged a package coming into the San Francisco airport holding a papery insect nest but not mentioning insects on the label.
What he calls a “papery palace of stories” sustains identity and ties Mufti to place.
Powell's is the largest bookstore in the world, an endless, multi-storey universe of papery smells and towering shelves.
The fronds are smooth, deep-green in color, slightly paler beneath, and of a rather firm papery texture.
The lowest Marsupials as regards the ossicles are the Peramelidae, whose ossicles are of a frail papery consistence.
The small burs have a thin, papery lining, and short, widely-branching spines.
Fruit a fleshy pome, with the cells formed by papery or cartilaginous membranes within juicy flesh.
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On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to papery, such as: chiffon, decrepit, feeble, insubstantial, rickety, and shaky.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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