Gossamer most commonly refers to: * Fine

spider silk Spider silk is a protein fibre or silk spun by spiders. Spiders use silk to make webs or other structures that function as adhesive traps to catch prey, to entangle and restrain prey before biting, to transmit tactile information, or as nest ...

used by spiderlings for

ballooning Ballooning may refer to: * Hot air ballooning * Balloon (aeronautics) * Ballooning (spider) * Ballooning degeneration, a disease * Memory ballooning In computing, memory ballooning is a technique that is used to eliminate the need to overcommit ...

or kiting * Gossamer (fabric), very light, sheer, gauze-like fabric Gossamer may also refer to:

Technology

Gossamer Condor The MacCready ''Gossamer Condor'' was the first human-powered aircraft capable of controlled and sustained flight; as such, it won the Kremer prize in 1977. Its design was led by Paul MacCready of AeroVironment, Inc. Design and development T ...

, the first human-powered aircraft capable of controlled and sustained flight *

Gossamer Albatross The ''Gossamer Albatross'' is a human-powered aircraft built by American aeronautical engineer Dr Paul B MacCready's company AeroVironment. On June 12, 1979, it completed a successful crossing of the English Channel to win the second Kremer ...

, a human-powered aircraft built by American aeronautical engineer Dr. Paul B. MacCready's AeroVironment * The code name of the motherboard used in first-generation Apple G3 Macs

Culture

* The Gossamer Project (or Gossamer Archive), a large ''X-Files'' fan fiction archive * Gossamer (''Looney Tunes''), a character in the ''Looney Tunes'' cartoons * Gossamer, alias of two different DC Comics superheroes,

Ayla Ranzz Ayla Ranzz, also known as Lightning Lass, Light Lass, Gossamer, and Spark, is a character appearing in media published by DC Comics. She is a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th and 31st centuries, as well as the sister of Lightning ...

and Jay Nakamura

Literature

* ''Gossamer'' (novel), a 2006 novel by Lois Lowry * Gossamer, a 1995 short story by Stephen Baxter in his collection '' Vacuum Diagrams'' and ''The Hard SF Renaissance'' anthology

Music

* ''Gossamer'' (album), by Passion Pit * "Gossamer", a song by The Smashing Pumpkins from the tour for ''Zeitgeist'' but not released on the album

Biology

Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family (biology), family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of ...

, gossamer-winged butterflies *

Euphaeidae Euphaeidae, sometimes incorrectly named Epallagidae and commonly called gossamerwings, is a family of damselflies in the odonate superfamily Calopterygoidea. The family is small, consisting of around 78 species living species in nine genera occu ...

, "gossamer-wings" (damselflies)

Other uses

* Gossamer, a golden ale produced by the Half Acre Beer Company in Chicago * The

gossamer rings The rings of Jupiter are a system of faint planetary rings. The Jovian rings were the third ring system to be discovered in the Solar System, after those of Saturn and Uranus. The main ring was discovered in 1979 by the ''Voyager 1'' space probe a ...

of Jupiter *