semilucent

comparative more semilucent · superlative most semilucent

1. Partially lucent; allowing less light to pass than through than something translucent but more than something opaque.

   She spoke the last words looking up at Rodney's windows, which were a semilucent red color, in her honor, as she knew.

   1919, Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

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   His litter of smooth semilucent mist, Diversely tinged with rose and amethyst, Puzzled those eyes that for the centre sought.

   1818, John Keats, Endymion

   The displaced retina with its superficial vessels appears as a semilucent gray membrane that obscures underlying detail and decreases tapetal reflectivity (Figure 43-30).

   2010, Michael E. Peterson, Michelle Kutzler, Small Animal Pediatrics: The First 12 Months of Life, →ISBN, page 481