WordNet
n. a material having the property of admitting light diffusely; a partly transparent material [syn: transparent substance]
Usage examples of "translucent substance".
It was as if a shell had been erected around them, a perfect sphere of translucent substance that glimmered pale amber, reflecting the lamplight.
Initially, Gurney had been assigned to the cliffs of Mount Ebony, where he and his crewmates used sonic blasters and laser-heated handpicks to chip away slabs of blue obsidian, a translucent substance that seemed to suck light from the air.
As Danlo could see, the tabletop was wrought of some translucent substance such as clary or glass.
It was made of overlapping sheets of some brittle translucent substance&mdash.
The stained glass was neither glass nor plastic but some thick, translucent substance that seemed as hard as the surrounding stone to the touch.
He saw at one end of the room an oval door of some semi-translucent substance opening upon dim light, and in another wall was an archway, broad and low, which looked out upon moving trees.
Peering warily through, he saw what seemed to be a broad open court, grass-carpeted, surrounded by a circular wall of the green semi-translucent substance.
In fact, I think I thought, 'Oh, so these are the ghosts that everybody talks about,' and I was silently stunned looking at them, at the way that all of them seemed to be made of the same translucent substance, and the way that they floated as though created mostly of air.
The floating thing was made of some smooth shining translucent substance, Icebones saw, but it was slack and loose, like the skin around the eyes of a very old mammoth.
It was a thin board of some greenish, translucent substance, covered on one side by a pattern of metallic lines and shapes, and on the other by several rows of small, black, rectangular capsules and an arrangement of colored disklike and rodlike objects.
All surfaces are coated in a milky, vaguely golden, translucent substance that, judging by the profile around the entry hatchway, is nearly three inches thick and is bonded so securely to the concrete that the two appear to be fused.