translucid
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of translucid
First recorded in 1620–30, translucid is from the Latin word trānslūcidus clear, transparent. See trans-, lucid
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
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 Verne, Jules
We may sometimes succeed in hooking up one of these long vermiform growths, breaking the calcareous sheath, and drawing out a long undulating translucid gelatinous cylinder.
From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane
The sky was hard, implacable, without a star, but all the same translucid.
From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Bernhardt, Sarah
In the hills of Cabo Blanco there are found among the gneiss, angular masses of opaque quartz, slightly translucid on the edges, and varying from grey to deep black.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von
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