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Definition of Filmy
1. Adjective. So thin as to transmit light. "Vaporous silks"
Similar to: Thin
Derivative terms: Cobweb, Film, Gauze, Transparency, Transparentness
Definition of Filmy
1. a. Composed of film or films.
Definition of Filmy
1. Adjective. Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy ¹
2. Adjective. Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Filmy
1. resembling or covered with film; hazy [adj FILMIER, FILMIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Filmy
Literary usage of Filmy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"THE filmy DOME Teacher's Story IKE bubbles cut in half, these delicate domes ...
Above a filmy dome are always stretched many crisscrossed threads for some ..."
2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1906)
"They are only one layer of cells in thickness, except at the veins, which gives
them their peculiar filmy character. Whether they have the light ..."
3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1906)
"They are only one layer of cells in thickness, except at the veins, which gives
them their peculiar filmy character. Whether they have the light green color ..."
4. The Letters of Pliny the Consul by Pliny, William Melmoth (1809)
"THE LETTERS OF filmy. BOOK NINTH. LETTER I. TO MAXIMUS. I HAVE frequently advised
you, to be as expeditious as possible in publishing what you have •written ..."
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