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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles;
- Example: "changeable taffeta"
- Example: "chatoyant (or shot) silk"
- Example: "a dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent"
[syn: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot]

2. having a play of lustrous rainbow colors;
- Example: "an iridescent oil slick"
- Example: "nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl"
- Example: "a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster"
[syn: iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Iridescent \Ir`i*des"cent\ (?; 277), a. [L. iris, iridis, the
   rainbow: cf. F. iridescent.]
   Having colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of
   changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass.
   See iridescence.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

iridescent
    adj 1: varying in color when seen in different lights or from
           different angles; "changeable taffeta"; "chatoyant (or
           shot) silk"; "a dragonfly hovered, vibrating and
           iridescent" [syn: changeable, chatoyant,
           iridescent, shot]
    2: having a play of lustrous rainbow colors; "an iridescent oil
       slick"; "nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like
       mother-of-pearl"; "a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster"
       [syn: iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline,
       pearlescent]