iridescence

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  1. noun The quality or state of being iridescent.

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  • The photobiotic iridescence was more noticeable there, green splotches and lines that separated, then ran together like a map of some distant place he'd never been. —  EBSCOhost
  • Solid mesh appeared overhead, out of the iridescence, and Verkan holstered his sigma-ray needier. —  Carr, John F, Kalvan Kingmaker (v1.0) (html).html
  • The eighth was a mud pool, not hot enough to give off steam, and dark in colour with a kind of iridescence across its surface. —  Color Scheme - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 12: 1943
  • She herself had a kind of local iridescence: she looked superb. —  Clutch of Constables—Ngaio Marsh—Roderick Allyn 25
  • Most petal iridescence is at the ultraviolet end of the light spectrum which is visible to insects but not to humans, found the study which has appeared in the latest issue of the 'Science' journal. —  The Times of India
 

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/ɪrɪˈdɛsəns/
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