What is "semitransparent"

Usage examples of "semitransparent".

The chrysalis had been hanging from a twig on a birch tree, semitransparent and backlit by a beam of sunlight, so she had been able to see the insect within.

The swirls started inside the square hunk of semitransparent rock, then merged and formed a picture as her hands made passes.

Murdicks were waiting at the departure checkpoint Holly in goggles and a semitransparent one-piece, Willis in a flying suit and helmet.

Renee scowled at him, drawing the semitransparent negligee around her body in a gesture that emphasized what she was purportedly attempting to hide.

For the first time since his adventure on Mars the previous year Lucky drew out of a special pouch glued to his waist, the flimsy, semitransparent object obtained from the Martian energy beings.

Draped in semitransparent white fabric it was the single most surprising thing Billy had yet come upon at Field Experiment Number One.

Occasionally, one of them looked away from the large central display to check a readout on one of the several drifting heads-ups that followed each of them around the room like so many flat, rectangular, semitransparent dogs.

The furniture -- armchairs, a low sofa, small rabies -- looked as though it had been cast in glass, and inside the semitransparent material swarms of fireflies circulated freely, sometimes dispersed, then joined again into streams, so that a luminous blood seemed to course within the furniture, pale green with pink sparks mixed in.

Kirk taped the bundle of slick, semitransparent sheets of flimsiplast into a plastic sack, and turned back to watch Kellogg extracting the long, accordion-folded scroll which was extruding itself like some fantastic tongue from the fax machine.

The serene face was semitransparent, and Ransome recognized familiar features behind the cloaking Carnival image.

Through the semitransparent steelglass he could see the blurred images of people moving in an insectlike mass, and the large globes of bioluminescence suspended from the ceilings, giving everything a radiant cast.

Like semitransparent curtains of tinsel and thinnest silk, the rain and fog hung between him and the rest of the world.

He soon discovered that it was only one of a great number of similar chambers, each with a separate illuminated orb and each with the walls filled with legion upon legion of semitransparent platelets packed solidly and several deep.

The semitransparent cerebroenergetic equipment reformed about his levitant body and he began to recede rapidly.

By then, she was out of the pool and in a green semitransparent dress, her long black hair done up in a Psyche knot.