Iridescent

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  • adjective. Producing a display of lustrous, rainbowlike colors.
  • adjective. Brilliant, lustrous, or colorful in effect or appearance.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Exhibiting or giving out colors like those of the rainbow; gleaming or shimmering with rainbow colors; more generally, glittering with different colors which change according to the light in which they are viewed, without reference to what the colors are; lustrously versicolor; of changeable metallic sheen, as certain birds, insects, minerals, glass, fabrics, etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic. See iridescence.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Producing a display of lustrous, rainbow-like colors; prismatic.
  • adjective. Brilliant, lustrous, or colorful.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles
  • adjective. having a play of lustrous rainbow colors
  • Word Usage
    "Also called iridescent shark catfish, Pangasius thrives in Vietnam's Mekong River."
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    amber  azure  bluish  dazzle  filmy  
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