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
They traded a few lines and harmonized beautifully on the chorus — her tone opalescent, his bringing some grit — but Combs never overshadowed Chapman.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
The powdered slurry becomes a strong, opalescent material called sintered glass.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2023
He added Phillip Jeffries’ Chromatic in orange opalescent on the ceiling.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2022
She adds a cardboard flat of opalescent buttons for my unfinished dress.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
Vocabulary lists containing opalescent
100 SAT words Beginning with "O"
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