adjective
definition
Being like paper in terms of consistency, thickness, texture, dryness, etc.
Examples of papery in a Sentence
The papery hospital gown was rough beneath her palms, the dark room too cold.
This thread gives rise to a spiral ciliated band lying in a depression on the body of each spermatozoid; the large spermatozoids eventually escape from the pollen-tube, and are able to perform ciliary movements in the watery liquid which occurs between the thin papery remnant of nucellar tissue and the archegonial necks.
In the ripe seed the integument assumes the form of a fleshy envelope, succeeded internally by a hard woody shell, internal to which is a thin papery membrane - the apical portion of the nucellus - which is easily dissected out as a conical cap covering the apex of the endosperm.
A papery remnant of nucellus lines the inner face of the woody shell, and, as in cycadean seeds, the apical portion is readily separated as a cap covering the summit of the endosperm.
The true leaves are only microscopic scales of a brown, papery texture.
Apparently bees like more enclosed spaces for their nests and now I come to think about it, this hive looks pretty papery.
Each solitary flower of 2.5 to 3cm in diameter is produced on a very short pedicel with a number of pale brown papery scales.
Bright blue berries surrounded by purplish red, papery scales often appear in autumn.
This may result in dull, papery looking skin.
The country was still labouring under the curse of an inconvertible currency originatingwith the Legal Tender Act res - paperY g dncy.
The bark in most of the trees occurs in fine soft membranous layers, the outer cuticle of which peels off in thin, white, papery sheets.