translucent

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Cook until translucent, about 5 minutes.

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  1. adjective Transmitting light but causing sufficient diffusion to prevent perception of distinct images.
  2. adjective Clear; lucid.

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  • Thin, translucent, and lacking enamel as well as dentine, these modern structures are known as cycloid and ctenoid scales.
  • Add the onion and saute until soft and translucent, about 4 minutes. —  All MayoClinic.com Topics
  • Add the onions and cook until they are slightly translucent, about 10 minutes. —  Modern Mom
  • The walls were translucent, the furniture oddly colored, and so carefully padded that even a homicidal or suicidal person could not have hurt himself or anyone else on it or with it Food reached him often enough so that he never got hungry, but not often enough to keep him from being bored between meals, or from brooding. —  The Colors of Space
  • In the sunshine the marble columns seem to be translucent, and light-blue shadows fall on the marble floor. —  From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People
 

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transparent ·  opaque ·  greenish ·  luminous ·  milky ·  iridescent ·  amber ·  glassy ·  shiny ·  metallic ·  filmy ·  crystalline
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  1. Latin trānslūcēns, trānslūcent-, present participle of trānslūcēre, to shine through : trāns-, trans- + lūcēre, to shine; see leuk- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin translucen (t-)s, present participle of translucere, shine across or through, from trans, over, + lucere, shine: see lucent. Cf. tralucent.
 

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/trænsˈljusənt/
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