Usually means: Sheer, allowing light to pass.
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  1. diaphanous: Merriam-Webster
  2. diaphanous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diaphanous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. diaphanous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. diaphanous: Vocabulary.com
  6. diaphanous: Wordnik
  7. diaphanous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. diaphanous: Wiktionary
  9. diaphanous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. diaphanous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. diaphanous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Diaphanous, diaphanous: Dictionary.com
  13. diaphanous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Diaphanous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. diaphanous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. diaphanous: Rhymezone
  17. Diaphanous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. diaphanous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. diaphanous: FreeDictionary.org
  20. diaphanous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. diaphanous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. diaphanous: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. diaphanous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diaphanous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diaphanous: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Diaphanous: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (diaphanous)

▸ adjective:  Transparent or translucent; allowing light to pass through; capable of being seen through.
▸ adjective:  Of a fine, almost transparent, texture; gossamer; light and insubstantial.
▸ adjective:  (physics) Isorefractive, having an identical refractive index.

Similar:
see-through, transparent, thin, vaporous, gossamer, gauzy, filmy, cobwebby, sheer, diaphanic, more...

Opposite:
opaque, non-transparent, non-translucent

Types:
filmy, gauzy, sheer, tenuous, transparent, vaporous, flimsy, more...

Colors:
    opal,     pearl,     alabaster,     mist,     chiffon, more...
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Similar:
see-through, transparent, thin, vaporous, gossamer, gauzy, filmy, cobwebby, sheer, diaphanic, more...

Opposite:
opaque, non-transparent, non-translucent

Types:
filmy, gauzy, sheer, tenuous, transparent, vaporous, flimsy, more...

Colors:
    opal,     pearl,     alabaster,     mist,     chiffon, more...



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