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Definition
varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles
- The iridescent bubbles were beautiful.
iridescent = varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles
- But the bird was almost out of sight now and nothing showed on the surface of the water but some patches of yellow, sun-bleached Sargasso weed and the purple, formalized, iridescent gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war floating dose beside the boat.
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