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

I have this dish — it might be an incense holder — that’s an abalone shell whose interior is this beautiful opalescent pink.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2020

Beside us, in the lamplight, is a seated figure, inflamed and opalescent, like a flaring ember.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2020

The nixies begin to surface, looking at us with hungry, opalescent eyes.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black