iridescent

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adj rainbow-colored

adjective. prismatic

adjective. opalescent

1796, literally "rainbow-colored," coined from comb. form of Latin iris (genitive iridis) "rainbow" (see iris). Related: Iridescently.

Celerity, valor, endurance, they were his iridescent neck and tail feathers.

Have you noticed the iridescent sparkle when the wind ripples the blades?

She no longer saw it through the iridescent haze of excited fancy.

But the starving out business I have always said was an "iridescent" dream.

It was as beautiful and iridescent as the Staubbach, and as impalpable.

Whence it came that she had some of her wildest seizures of iridescent humour.

On one of the iridescent clouds we encountered the figure of Moses.

It shimmered and trembled like an iridescent bubble about to break.

The head and neck are black, but this glows with an iridescent green.

They are sometimes very brilliant, and have been observed to be iridescent.