opalescent
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The crab is small, being around 15 millimeters in length, and is opalescent white-yellow in color.
From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 2025
The powdered slurry becomes a strong, opalescent material called sintered glass.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2023
Beside us, in the lamplight, is a seated figure, inflamed and opalescent, like a flaring ember.
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2020
Shot in opalescent black-and-white, the movie tries to sculpt Mary along protofeminist, flapperesque lines.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2018
Werner thinks of Jutta with her opalescent hair and quick eyes and blunt manners: she would never be mistaken for the weakest.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Vocabulary lists containing opalescent
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