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pellucid

/puh-loo-sid/US // pəˈlu sɪd //UK // (pɛˈluːsɪd) //

鳞片状,透明的,透明度高,鳞片

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent
    • : clear; limpid: pellucid waters.
    • : clear in meaning, expression, or style: a pellucid way of writing.

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Examples

  • The fresh green blade of corn is like this—so pellucid, so clear and pure in its green as to seem to shine with colour.

  • Greatest miracle of all, a tiny stream of pellucid water was flowing down the Gulch.

  • Like some of our own pellucid waters, it is a Naiad of the purest kind, sleeping on coral and crystal couches.

  • She was enveloped in a cloud, a thick case guarding overtaxed mind and body, and shutting them in its pellucid chrysalis.

  • These wells were filled with water, and with a blue light, celestial in its loveliness,—a light ethereal and pellucid.