translucid
Example Sentences
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Background characters are presented as translucid entities reinforcing the idea that most of us, trapped in routinary hells, are already ghosts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023
Some already contain the cocoon—slender and translucid, like that of the Cerceris, and, like it, recalling the shape of certain homœopathic phials, with oval bodies surmounted by a tapering neck.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall
They were of an opaque ivory, translucid, soft under the tool, and with a brown rind, preserving its whiteness and not growing yellow with time like the ivories of other provinces.
From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Jules Verne
The sheaths of the antennæ, without a wrinkle, without the least derangement, and in their natural place, hang over this dead, translucid face.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall
The others, red, yellow or white, are actually painted: on a translucid sheet is a wash of urinary pigment, which is discharged by the minute ducts issuing from the adipose layer.
From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
