It exists in the form of irregular, semitransparent pieces, of a brownish-red color.
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera
Pea vines in the garden always seem such gentle ladies, clad in a fabric of soft, semitransparent green, nodding and smiling, slender, tall and sweet.
"Old Plymouth Trails"
Winthrop Packard
Some of them already contain the cocoon, which is slender and semitransparent, like those of the Cerceris, and, like them, suggests the shape of certain homoeopathic phials, with oval bellies surmounted by a tapering neck.
"More Hunting Wasps"
J. Henri Fabre