ADJECTIVE
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transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
lucid air
a pellucid brook
transparent crystal
the cold crystalline water of melted snow
could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool
crystal clear skies -
(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
pellucid prose
a luculent oration
writes in a limpid style
lucid directions
a crystal clear explanation
a perspicuous argument
How To Use pellucid In A Sentence
- pellucid prose
- From the materials of the house itself he draws unexpected resonances, candescent onyx balancing pellucid glass, and that glass itself shifting between aspects. The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
- A completely irrational white translucent roof undulates over the space like a gentle cloud, or the sky seen from under water on a pellucid day.
- Also inhabiting Ecoregion 61c are several species that are threatened in Pennsylvania, including the eastern sand darter (Ammocrypta pellucida) and the northern brook lamprey (Ichthyomyzon fossor) (Cooper, 1985, pp. 179, 182). Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
- Assisted hatching (AH) is a micromanipulation procedure in which a hole is made in the zona pellucida just prior to embryo transfer to facilitate hatching of the embryo.
- There is first the enfranchisement of your steaming limbs from gaiter and shooting boot, buckskin and flannel; then the steeping of your sodden head in the pellucid depth, with bubaline snortings and expirations of satisfaction; then, as the first cold stream from the "tinpot" courses down your spine, what electric thrills start from a dozen ganglia and flush your whole nervous system with new life! Behind the Bungalow
- Nowhere, for example, will you find a more pellucid explanation for the existence of Young Republicans, the popular belief in angels, or the utterances of Fundamentalist Christians Is Barack Obama An American Citizen? | Heretical Ideas Magazine
- Diving the pellucid waters of the Caribbean Sea off the coast of central Belize, down past jewel-like transparent plankton, I see the ridge of the Belize Barrier Reef materializing out of the turquoise depths.
- I tell myself, as Jean Renoir pointed out with such pellucid irony in The Rules of the Game, that everybody has their reasons. "The vitriol it inspires is downright weird"`
- Zhao L, Reim K, Miller DJ (2008) Complexin-I-deficient sperm are subfertile due to a defect in zona pellucida penetration. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
