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opalescent

[oh-puh-les-uhnt] / ˌoʊ pəˈlɛs ənt /


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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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2019

Moonlight floods the bedroom, shimmers the walls, opalescent.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti




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