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opalescent

/oh-puh-les-uhnt/US // ˌoʊ pəˈlɛs ənt //UK // (ˌəʊpəˈlɛsənt) //

乳白色,光彩夺目,乳白色的,乳白

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
    • : having a milky iridescence.

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Examples

  • The opalescent, minty-green louche billows under the ice water droplets.

  • For a second the lily was enveloped in a milk-white foam, which disappeared, leaving the fluid opalescent.

  • Boris plunged in his hand and drew out an exquisite marble thing, blue-veined, rose-tinted, and glistening with opalescent drops.

  • The saline tracts between the prisms produce a milky or opalescent appearance.

  • We mounted to the upper deck, under the open sky, with its opalescent tints and shifting clouds to the west.

  • First, silvery threads of light began to weave along the bristling ridges of the east and opalescent flecks to glimmer overhead.

  • Two Venetian glass vases on the mantel gave out an opalescent gleam in the twilight.

  • When a great quantity of gelatin is present the filtrate will be opalescent instead of perfectly clear.