papery in English

adjective
1
thin and dry like paper.
Garlic is ready to harvest when the leaves turn papery and fade.
synonyms:thinpaper-thinflimsydelicateinsubstantiallightlightweight
adjective

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1. Her skin had the papery-thin translucence of great age.

2. Corm Corms are actually enlarged underground stems that store nutrients, surrounded by papery outer layers

3. Fresh Corms have a papery husk and come to a point at the top

4. Bougainvillea glabra is sometimes referred to as "paper flower" because the bracts are thin and papery.

5. These seeds occur in distinctive pairs each containing one seed enclosed in a "nutlet" attached to a flattened wing of fibrous, papery tissue.

6. ‘Its leafy, elongated stems are 8-12 mm in diameter, initially green and covered by the Amplexicaul, striated leaf bases which become dry, papery and grey with age.’

7. I am in the process of softening a Bark tanned deer skinand it has always had a papery feel to it, wondering if i did not rehydrate it enough before putting it in the soution- it is truly a different beast from the other hides i have done and this is the only difference