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gossamer

adjective as in gauzy, thin

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Named cardiac nexus glia, these cells appear early in zebrafish development and go on to spread out and form a gossamer-thin web around the heart, Smith and Kikel-Coury reported last year in PLOS Biology.

The Levity’s only feature is a single pocket, and we took extra care with the delicate zippers and gossamer fabric.

Wanna’s Christo-like “Within Without” encloses the stairway entrance to the second-floor gallery in gossamer fabric, outlined by floor-level light strips.

Sea butterflies flit through the ocean on gossamer wings, each species with a style of its own.

When the short-skirted, gossamer clad nymphs made their appearance on the stage they became restless and fidgety.

Mackintoshes, vulcanized india-rubber, gutta-percha, and gossamer dust-coats unknown then.

But look at the difference here: after dinner here one is as light as a gossamer.

Her dress was of finest work, its texture thin as gossamer; pure white with here and there a silken knot of blue.

Everywhere were threads of water, threads of snow, and little threads of dewy green, glistening like gossamer.

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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gossamer, such as: fibrous, silky, translucent, cobweb, fine, and flimsy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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