Definitions for papery

papery pa·per·y

Spelling: [pey-puh-ree]
IPA: /ˈpeɪ pə ri/

Papery is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in papery (aeppry).

Definitions for papery

adjective

  1. like paper; thin or flimsy:

Origin of papery

First recorded in 1620-30; paper + -y1

Examples for papery

He took out his clasp knife, and after stripping off the papery outer shell, cut the onion into thick dewy slices.

Soft pines shed the papery sheath of their leaf bundles before the leaves themselves begin to fall.

What he calls a “papery palace of stories” sustains identity and ties Mufti to place.

It was of silky, papery fiber, as smooth to the touch as to the eye.

The flowers last a long time in water, gradually becoming paler in color and papery in texture.

"No one can complain of papery ices here," said the Marchesa.

Look along the twigs and you will find the needles arranged in bundles, with a papery, enclosing sheath at the base.

The peculiar, five-lobed involucre, which becomes large and papery after flowering, contains from three to five flowers.

The coat of the inner ball is thin and papery, and opens by an apical mouth.

They grow from one to over two feet high, taller than the grasslike leaves, forming a loose cluster, with papery bracts.

Word Value for papery
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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