opalescent
adj/oʊpəˈlɛsənt/
Etymology From opal + -escent, after opalescence or French opalescent. First attested in 1814.
1
Exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal.
- Below me, through the opalescent surface, I saw the white ghost of the Cessna.1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 9:
- Derived terms
- nonopalescent, opalescently, opalescent nudibranch, semiopalescent