“opalescent”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

opalescent

释义

opalescent, a.|əʊpəˈlɛsənt|
[f. opal + -escent.]
Exhibiting a play of various colours like that of the opal; having a milky iridescence.
1813Bakewell Introd. Geol. (1815) Vocab. 488 Opalescent, transmitting variously coloured light combined with a milky cloudiness, as in the siliceous stone called opal.1846Ruskin Mod. Paint. I. ii. i. vii. §15 Titian hardly ever paints sunshine, but a certain opalescent twilight which has as much of human emotion as of imitative truth in it.1868B. J. Lossing Hudson 33 The beautiful labradorite, or opalescent felspar.1880Sat. Rev. 20 Mar. 385/1 The opalescent effects manifested by specimens of glass after being long buried underground.

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