Gossamer

Gossamer most commonly refers to:

• Fine spider silk used by spiderlings for ballooning or kiting
• Gossamer (fabric), very light, sheer, gauze-like fabric

Gossamer may also refer to:

Technology

• Gossamer Condor, the first human-powered aircraft capable of controlled and sustained flight
• Gossamer Albatross, 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 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, gossamer-winged butterflies
• Euphaeidae, "gossamer-wings" (damselflies)

Other uses

• Gossamer, a golden ale produced by the Half Acre Beer Company in Chicago
• The gossamer rings of Jupiter
• Gossamer (horse)
• , several ships of the Royal Navy

See also