What is "opalescent"

Usage examples of "opalescent".

The afternoon we descended Marcy, we went away to the west, through the primeval forests, toward Avalanche and Colden, and followed the course of the charming Opalescent.

So, in such good company I may introduce an absinthe drip -- one absinthe drip, dripped through a silver dripper, orderly, opalescent, cool, green-eyed -- deceptive.

Along this low rim its whitish opalescent waters mixed smoothly with the roots and over-hanging blades of the long grasses, with the cloistral arched frondage of the ferns, and with here and there a strayed spray of purple wild-pea.

Steam roiling up from the lake, the mud pots, the fumaroles, glowed in opalescent plumes.

When she opened the shutter, the night was opalescent with moonlight, and Juba was huddled below the sill.

The younger shaper was narrower in every dimension than Nen Yim, and her blue-gray flesh had an opalescent sheen about it.

Below them in the valley, the Seine wound snakewise through a series of silvery silent loops, and beyond, across the fields and forests and villages, already melting swiftly into night and twinkling with a diamond dust of lights, they saw the huge and smoking substance that was Paris, a design of elfin towers and ancient buildings and vast inhuman distances, an architecture of enchantment, smoky, lovely as a dream, seeming to be upborne, to be sustained, to float there like the vision of an impossible and unapproachable loveliness, out of a huge opalescent mist.

Ahead hung a veil of opalescent mist, swirling round but strangely confined, as if caught twixt two invisible pillars.

This was the Olympus Range, first noticed by Meares, and to-day seen for miles out at sea like a ridge of opalescent domes suspended in mid-heaven.

Beneath the moisture was a layer of flow rock, limestone dissolved and redeposited in opalescent layers.

Flow rock, limestone dissolved and redeposited by water, gleamed in opalescent beauty on the upper surfaces of the cave, but the stone had been rubbed dull generations ago wherever it was within reach of a hand.

Android opened his left hand and two opalescent hawkmoths flew out, their wings beating so fast they were only a humming blur.

Like every Mec, EenLi possessed opalescent skin that glowed different colors with different emotions.

The Changelings were in fusion, their opalescent eyes fixed upon the remaining manna.

His collection of the genus Barbus was extensive: he had beautiful specimens of the opalescent red-finned oligolepis.