opalescent
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Opalescent: with a bluish white lustre, as in opals.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
Opalescent, infinitely desirable, in the window of a stationer's shop around the corner, gleamed the paste-pot of my daydreams.
From More Trivia by Smith, Logan Pearsall
Opalescent berries resemble heaps of pearls, and the lemon stalks of marine sedge gleam like wedges of gold in the crystalline depths.
From Through the Malay Archipelago by Richings, Emily
I was tempted to loiter on the banks of the Feld-spar and the bright Opalescent, but I passed by without even picking a pebble from the clear basins of its sparkling cascades.
From The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Bruce, Wallace
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