Nowhere, for example, will you find a more pellucid explanation for the existence of Young Republicans, the popular belief in angels, or the utterances of Fundamentalist Christians The Young Emigrants Madelaine Tube the Boy and the Book and Crystal Palace

'It is pellucid, that is, not opaque, or dark - it gives admission to the light, and reflects it back again in all its beauty, brilliancy, and purity. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians.

Juan may, with singular propriety, be termed the pellucid river. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon _Lamina_ or Plate of a transparent or pellucid body of a thickness very determinate and proportioned according to the greater or less refractive power of the _pellucid_ body.

adjective (of language) transparently clear easily understandable.

adjective transmitting light able to be seen through with clarity.

adjective Transparent clear limpid translucent not opaque.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

Figuratively, clear transparent to mental vision.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

Admitting the passage of light, but not properly transparent translucent limpid not opaque in entomology, transparet, but not necessarily colorless translucent.

adjective Transparently clear in style or meaning.

adjective Admitting the passage of light transparent or translucent.

From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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