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Porcelain :: Porcelain (n.) A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also China, or China ware..

Scirrhus :: Scirrhus (n.) A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised..

Pectin :: Pectin (n.) One of a series of carbohydrates, commonly called vegetable jelly, found very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, especially in ripe fleshy fruits, as apples, cranberries, etc. It is extracted as variously colored, translucent substances, which are soluble in hot water but become viscous on cooling..

Glass :: Glass (v. t.) A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament..

Diaphanotype :: Diaphanotype (n.) A colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one.

Grossular :: Grossular (a.) A translucent garnet of a pale green color like that of the gooseberry; -- called also grossularite.

Perspicuous :: Perspicuous (a.) Capable of being through; transparent; translucent; not opaque.

Diaphanie :: Diaphanie (n.) The art of imitating //ined glass with translucent paper.

Tubercle :: Tubercle (n.) A small mass or aggregation of morbid matter; especially, the deposit which accompanies scrofula or phthisis. This is composed of a hard, grayish, or yellowish, translucent or opaque matter, which gradually softens, and excites suppuration in its vicinity. It is most frequently found in the lungs, causing consumption..

Translucent :: Translucent (a.) Transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen; partially transparent.

Cartilage :: Cartilage (n.) A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle..

Translucency :: Translucency (n.) The quality or state of being translucent; clearness; partial transparency.

Ripidolite :: Ripidolite (n.) A translucent mineral of a green color and micaceous structure, belonging to the chlorite group; a hydrous silicate of alumina, magnesia, and iron; -- called also clinochlore..

Semidiaphanous :: Semidiaphanous (a.) Half or imperfectly transparent; translucent.

Translucent :: Translucent (a.) Transparent; clear.

Whitebait :: Whitebait (n.) A small translucent fish (Salanx Chinensis) abundant at certain seasons on the coasts of China and Japan, and used in the same manner as the European whitebait..

Hydrophane :: Hydrophane (n.) A semitranslucent variety of opal that becomes translucent or transparent on immersion in water.

Tralucent :: Tralucent (a.) Translucent.

Lumpfish :: Lumpfish (n.) A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl..

Retinalite :: Retinalite (n.) A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster..

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