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colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass.

Slightly green; greenish.

A porcelainlike kind of decorative pottery with a high gloss, which is sometimes iridescent. A very fine kind is made at Belleek in Ireland.

rbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than emery, and is used as an abrasive.

genus of Ctenophora. The typical species (Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form.

Exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; the quality or state of being iridescent; a prismatic play of color; as, the iridescence of mother-of-pearl.

Iridescent.

To make iridescent; as, to iridize glass.

Exhibiting the prismatic colors; irised; iridescent. W. Phillips.

Having colors like those of the rainbow; iridescent. Holmes.

Characteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a peacock, as in colors; iridescent. P. Cleaveland.

Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.

A variety of albite, whitish and slightly iridescent like a pigeon's neck.

the United States, and much valued as a food fish. It is of a bright silvery color, with iridescent reflections. Called also weakfish, squitee, chickwit, and sea trout. The spotted squeteague (C. nebulosus) of the Southern United States is a similar fish, but the back and upper fins are spotted with black. It is calle…

area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid.

, 2. -- Venus's girdle (Zoöl.), a long, flat, ribbonlike, very delicate, transparent and iridescent ctenophore (Cestum Veneris) which swims in the open sea. Its form is due to the enormous development of two spheromeres. See Illust. in Appendix. -- Venus's hair (Bot.), a delicate and graceful fern (Adiantum Capillus-…

Quality or state of being viridescent.