They walked along the beach admiring the iridescent abalone shells. From LearnThat.org.
An iridescent oil slick. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Also called iridescent shark catfish, Pangasius thrives in Vietnam's Mekong River. From Wordnik.com. [MindaNews Feeds]
A few French words are thrown in as well as harder words such as iridescent, azure, automatic, and glamorous. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
The word "iridescent" for "having or showing shifting changes in color or an interplay of rainbowlike colors" comes from this root. From Wordnik.com. [Rockford Register Star Home RSS] Reference
One iridescent wing had been clutched in his fist. From Wordnik.com. [Moonlit Mariposa] Reference
Minnows wear robes of many colors, iridescent happy child shades. From Wordnik.com. [Minnows] Reference
Danfe pheasants nearly iridescent, a rainbow of greens and blues. From Wordnik.com. [Their Next] Reference
A blue jay's wings for Rutabaga, a vivid iridescent blue striped with black. From Wordnik.com. [Magnificent Pigs] Reference
Sometimes it appears as an iridescent sheen and other times reddish brown spots. From Wordnik.com. [Booms Delay The Inevitable; Cleanup Efforts Struggle] Reference
She danced out of the burning rubble, wrapped in a shawl made of iridescent silk. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly] Reference
But a swipe of iridescent dust on the eyes, cheeks or lips can be a magical thing. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon Perdis: Glitz Tricks: How to Make Glitter Work] Reference
It has a brass-yellow color, but is often stained with beautiful iridescent tints. From Wordnik.com. [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference
A last, long trill, high and pure, died away vibrating in the vases of iridescent glass. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Marianne, with a basket of quivering, iridescent mackerel just in from the night's fishing. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
The cute little laptop with its iridescent green keyboard is an XO, designed by the program. From Wordnik.com. [Rwanda's Laptop Revolution Raises Questions] Reference
Messiaen, who wanted to (and did) write "iridescent music," saw-actually saw-rainbows in music. From Wordnik.com. [Of Hopelessness And Hope] Reference
Thorax: the wings hyaline and splendidly iridescent, the tegulæ and the tarsi rufo-testaceous. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
The paintings lead one away entirely into the land of legend, into the iridescent splendor of reflection. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
Dismounting, they stood as in a huge green bowl: its bottom the smooth waters of the gulf, iridescent under. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
Syadvada offers the following view-specific preambles when describing some aspect of the iridescent reality. From Wordnik.com. [Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: WYSIWYC] Reference
He looked up under the brim of his felt hat at the sky-line of the mountain, shimmering iridescent above us. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Thorax: the wings hyaline and brilliantly iridescent; the legs dark rufo-piceous with a bright purple tinge. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
But the mussel, particularly the one found in the James river, yields an iridescent pearl of some little value. From Wordnik.com. [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference
On a branch above them, a python, awakened by those vibrations, revealed itself in an iridescent gliding of its coils. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
He actually used gold in the paint to make it iridescent, to make it luminescent, so it glows at you when you look at it. From Wordnik.com. [Missing 'Priceless' Artwork? Call Robert Wittman] Reference
By the iridescent light of the silent alarm I could see it was only 2: 38a.m. — too late to get home to the wife, I smiled. From Wordnik.com. [Beds] Reference
The sky towards the west was pitch black except for the iridescent twinkle of the fiery stars which studded that section of the heavens. From Wordnik.com. [The Jameson Satellite] Reference
When the snake awoke, he felt refreshed, as if he had shed his old brown skin for a new coat of iridescent colors. From Wordnik.com. [The Lonely Snake] Reference
All he could see was the back of her book; a guide to insects showing an iridescent green and red dung beetle with a horn and clawed legs. From Wordnik.com. [Bailey White: 'The Wedding Horse'] Reference
Some of his most beautiful works, inky black patterns on green, iridescent cloth and gold mesh, are enlarged and distorted printing errors. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond Shock Value] Reference
In the parking lot, black sedans eased onto the property, their iridescent bodies signaling, for the drivers and passengers within them, elation and fear and promise. From Wordnik.com. [Rod and Gun Club] Reference
The elaborate thatched nests built by New Guinean bowerbirds -- doorways rimmed with berries, iridescent beetle wings or flowers -- may also be an expression of culture. From Wordnik.com. [Culture Club] Reference
Its landscapes are still arid and pristine: iridescent mountains change color with the changing light of day, and the horizon stretches across open water toward faraway India. From Wordnik.com. [Sultans of Slow] Reference
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