| 单词 | gauze-like |
| 释义 | gauze-like (once / 112565 pages) adj WORD FAMILY gauze: gauze-like, gauzes, gauzy+/gauzy: gauzier, gauziest, gauzily USAGE EXAMPLESAmong the depths of Brazilian forests Bates was reading the story of evolution on the gauze-like wings of tropical butterflies. Allen, Grant, Charles Darwin(2010) Once she looked so lovely, with a thin gauze-like robe about her body, and various kinds of gauze over that. Auerbach, Berthold, Waldfried—A Novel(2010) “With a wild scream Farini endeavoured to support himself with his gauze-like wings.” Barr, Robert, A Prince of Good Fellows(2010) adj so thin as to transmit light Syn cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous thin of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section |
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