translucid
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of translucid
First recorded in 1620–30, translucid is from the Latin word trānslūcidus clear, transparent. See trans-, lucid
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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
Under its fine translucid skin there is nothing coloured, save the long digestive pouch, which is swollen a deep purple by the pulp of the consumed Crickets.
From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
She gazed at the sky and mountain, the lake and its translucid waves around us.
From Raphael Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty by Alphonse de Lamartine
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
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
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