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iridescence
[ ir-i-des-uhns ]
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- nonir·i·descence noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of iridescence1
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Example Sentences
After taking the leaf home and looking through a microscope, she was transfixed by the crinkly heads and iridescence of slime mold.
The prints’ iridescence can be seen as either natural or industrial, a memory of the polluted landscape where the Wrbicans grew up in western Pennsylvania.
Even so, the findings have implications for how iridescence could contribute to heat effects from climate change.
Those structures bounce light off differently at each angle, producing iridescence.
The clothes were dominated by gray, murky green, midnight blue, all with hints of iridescence.
Something of this iridescence may cling to unmarried lovers, in spite of themselves, but wedded bliss is a sheer offence.
Instantaneously the sun-flooded morning was born, a morning that lost its freshness, its pearly iridescence, immediately.
All these species are very beautiful, the rapid movement of the cilia giving them a brilliant iridescence.
In color it is reddish-brown, specked with gray, and has a brilliant whitish or opal-like iridescence.
On the contrary, its wings had grown to an amazing span and iridescence.
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