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

He added Phillip Jeffries’ Chromatic in orange opalescent on the ceiling.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022

Same goes for a gold and fuchsia-tinted stretch pleather mermaid gown with opalescent paillettes.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2019

The logs are dark brown and shiny, and they reflected opalescent colors in the beam of my head lamp.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston