filmy
adjective
1.
- “a hat with a diaphanous veil”
- “filmy wings of a moth”
- “gauzy clouds of dandelion down”
- “gossamer cobwebs”
- “sheer silk stockings”
- “transparent chiffon”
- “vaporous silks”
Origin
From film + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch velmich, vilmich (“filmy, membranous”). Doublet of filmic.
Phrases
- filmy fern
- Wilson's filmy fern
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