papery
/ˈpeɪp(ə)ri
/adjective
Thin and dry like paper: papery onion skins...
- Garlic is ready to harvest when the leaves turn papery and fade.
- Make sure you remove the papery membrane that you'll find between the two halves.
- It is a beautiful tree, with gracious branches and a brilliant white papery peeling bark.
Synonyms
thin, paper-thin, gossamer-thin, ultra-thin, flimsy, delicate, insubstantial, fragile, frail, light, lightweight
rare papyraceous, chartaceous
Rhymes
- inexpressibly
- inexpressive
- inexpressively
- inexpressiveness
- inexpugnable
- inextensible
- in extenso
- inextinguishable
- in extremis
- inextricability
- inextricable
- inextricably
- INF
- inf.
- in face (or the face) of
- in facsimile
- infall
- infallibility
- infallible
- infallibly
- infamous
- infamously
- infamy
- infancy
- infangthief