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from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cause to resemble opal or to assume its structure or appearance: as, opalized wood. Also spelled opalise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To convert into opal, or a substance like opal.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To convert into a form of opal or chalcedony, especially to convert wood into such a fossilized form.
  • verb To make opalescent.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb replace or convert into opal
  • verb make opalescent

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