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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pellucid
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the end of the garden, the waters of the stream that had risen pellucid at their source lay curdled.
▪ Dive down through the pellucid water and turn a boulder.
▪ Even at his worst, he's merely pellucid.
▪ For exact determination the pellucid markings in the leaves can be used.
▪ In its wake, the air was pellucid.
▪ The sky beyond the window was a pale, pellucid blue, traversed by slow-moving clouds.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pellucid

Pellucid \Pel*lu"cid\, a. [L. pellucidus; per (see Per-) + lucidus clear, bright: cf. F. pellucide.] Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque. ``Pellucid crystal.''
--Dr. H. More. ``Pellucid streams.''
--Wordsworth.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pellucid

"transparent, translucent," 1610s, from Latin pellucidus "transparent," from pellucere "shine through," from per- "through" (see per) + lucere "to shine" (see light (n.)). Related: Pellucidly; pellucidity.

Wiktionary
pellucid

a. 1 Allowing the passage of light; transparent. 2 Easily understood; clear.

WordNet
pellucid
  1. adj. transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent cristal" [syn: crystalline, crystal clear, limpid, lucid, transparent]

  2. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" [syn: limpid, lucid, luculent, crystal clear, perspicuous]

Usage examples of "pellucid".

The blond hair plastered wetly to his high broad forehead with rain was the unimpeachable yellow of flax, his eyes were of a pellucid Wedgewood blue, and the mudspattered boots and the wellused riding coat visible beneath the cape were of excellent quality, yet commonplace.

Canopus and Achernar high overhead, and Jack showed his attentive midshipmen the new constellations, Musca, Pavo, Chamaeleon and many more, all glowing in the warm, pellucid air.

Below them the pellucid waters of Pamlico Sound shimmered, sliding and changing.

Simon Templar had ever killed, and he did it rather carefully and conscientiously, in the pellucid knowledge of what they were and what they had done, and to his own absolute judicial satisfaction, shooting Kay Natello three inches above her hollow navel and Cookie in the same umbilical bullseye, as closely as he could estimate it through her adipose camouflage.

They were the first women that Simon Templar had ever killed, and he did it rather carefully and conscientiously, in the pellucid knowledge of what they were and what they had done, and to his own absolute judicial satisfaction, shooting Kay Natello three inches above her hollow navel and Cookie in the same umbilical bullseye, as closely as he could estimate it through her adipose camouflage.

Compare die pellucid Boolean logic with the obscurities of the Aristotelean logic it supplanted.

Surely Juss caught his breath in that moment, to see those deathless ones where they shone pavilioned in the pellucid air, far, vast, and lonely, most like to creatures of unascended heaven, of wind and of fire all compact, too pure to have aught of the gross elements of earth or water.

It seemed to draw to itself the light, sending it back with gleamings of the gray-blue of the star sapphire, with pellucid azures and lazulis like clouded jades, with glistening peacock iridescences and tender, milky greens of tropic shallows.

And water seemed to run everywhere, down from the slopes of the Gunarring, pellucid bournes bearing pure drink outward to quench the thirst of the foothills and the plains beyond.

His skin became smooth and as pellucid as clarified butter, until it appeared as though the white of bone shone through.

The work of the brilliant French combiner was, like numerous other French Arthurian romances of his period, a well-constructed and pellucid narrative.

The huge crystal, pellucid as a raindrop, seemed rather to absorb the light than to reflect it, so that the golden rays went glimmering down, and back and forthnow deep, now shallow, ever shiftingand the Diviners bent their heads, gazing with their souls into the depths of the crystal.

The huge crystal, pellucid as a raindrop, seemed rather to absorb the light than to reflect it, so that the golden rays went glimmering down, and back and forth now deep, now shallow, ever shiftingand the Diviners bent their heads, gazing with their souls into the depths of the crystal.

Across the great lake, shimmering like a sheet of blue metal in the pellucid morning sunshine, the swooping, soaring structure of the fairgrounds could just be seen in the distance.

Pellucid daylight washed of glare filters through the blackglass dome and mingles with the watery glow from the console.