OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 22705

pellucid

/pɪˈl(j)uːsɪd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cristalino • diáfano • transparente
Allowing the passage of light; translucent or transparent.
As a stream, clear and bright, becomes foul with weeds, and stagnates by its distant meanderings from its pure and pellucid source,—so the active imagination, the capacious intelle…
The sea was shining like a sheet of glass, […] and the bright sea-weeds and the brilliant corals shone in the depths of that pellucid water, as we rowed over it, like rare and prec…