How To Use Iridescent In A Sentence

Without iridescent blue eye shadow, an effulgent outfit or a hair-sprayed coif, she looks normal.
The red cloth was then edged with rows of iridescent mother-of-pearl buttons.
Under the crystal bright light of a full moon their blue marble shined, iridescent.
The fresher your mackerel the better - look for glassy eyes and bright, iridescent skin. Times, Sunday Times
Her iridescently colored eyes flickered in the direction of the voice, soon followed by a warm smile as she looked to Raek.

Forging a symbiosis with the force that rules their world, some are viridescent, mimicking the foliage that surrounds them.
Organza makes a great splash along with tulle, lace, elegant luxury fabrics combined with glittering Chantilly, crushed velvet, jersey with lurex and iridescent cady.
Beyond them came the beauty of the Hoxworth lane: to the left and north stood an unbroken line of croton bushes imported by Whip from Guadalcanal in the Solomons, and of all that grew on his plantations, these were his favorites, these low sparkling bushes whose iridescent green and red and purple and gold and blue leaves were a constant source of wonder; but to the right ran a long row of hibiscus trees, low shrublike plants that produced a dozen varieties of fragile, crepelike flowers, each with its own dazzling color; Hawaii
Besides the pigment-cells just described, Heincke discovered another kind of chromatophore, which was filled with iridescent crystals. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
Molly stood up in surprise and noticed that she was now wearing a gauzy dress of iridescent white.
Will people buy Peter Som's broadtail coat from premature or newborn Karakul lambs -- think about that -- with its never-say-excess iridescent fox color? Earth to Fur Designers
The pelage consists almost entirely of underfur; it is remarkably iridescent, fine, and silky.
Gernot Vogel Kopstein 's bronzeback snake (Dendrelaphis kopsteini) has bright orange, almost flamelike, neck coloration that gradually fuses into an iridescent blue, green and brown pattern. Borneo
June looks and feels more like February; the iridescent green of the trees and the rampant roses are oddly out of sync with the glowering grey clouds. Times, Sunday Times
They leaked iridescent bubbles, which rose to the silvered undersurface of the clear brown water. FAMILY PICTURES
This will remove shine, leaving you with a slightly iridescent sheen. The Sun
The beetles' iridescent wings were used in the Victorian era like sequins to decorate the dresses of society women.
Nor was it merely in the cheeks, or rather the chaps of this painted face, in the mammiferous chest, the aggressive rump of this body allowed to deteriorate and invaded by obesity, upon which there now floated iridescent as a film of oil, the vice at one time so jealously confined by M. de Charlus in the most secret chamber of his heart. The Captive
The beaches are litter-free and the water an iridescent ice-blue.
As we walked on, beautiful Indian sunbirds, their iridescent green flanks flashing brightly in the sunlight, flew past in a profusion of colours.
Evoking images of viridescent dragon scales, the pointed, blue-green leaves create a compact, deer-proof assemblage that's infused with reddish purple tinges.
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
New shoots of young grass come up green - a vivid viridescent I have seen nowhere in America or Europe.
Large checks, iridescent fabrics and decadent velvet are all worn with attitude.
Moiré and mother of pearl pastel watch faces in colours like pink and aqua and agate will also capture an iridescent feel.
From the long tapering fingers of her right hand a golden chain dangled and swinging idly from its end hung a small iridescent vial.
Thorax: the metathorax finely transversely rugose, the sides with bright silvery-white pubescence; the coxæ, the thorax beneath and on the sides, with fine silky sericeous pile; the anterior tibiæ and tarsi, and all the femora at their apex beneath, ferruginous; wings hyaline and iridescent, nervures black; the outer margin of the tegulæ testaceous. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
There's also a crunchy peanut-butter tart, topped with an iridescent scoop of celery sorbet and speckled with crushed pistachios.
Their slender, varicoloured tentacles whipped out; the giant iridescent bubbles The Moon Pool
Some eighteenth-century Chinese ceramics with monochrome glazes and iridescent surfaces influenced his glazes, which were primarily iridescent monochromes punctuated with crystals.
The road itself, paved with a pretty good grade of mildly iridescent plastic, was named the Great White Way. New Race
It blended solid walnut, solid oak and neolith worktops with drawers and a kitchen island clad in iridescent copper. Times, Sunday Times
The light bounced off his light blonde hair and the three silver hoops in his ear in iridescent rainbows.
It was a long, silvery iridescent gown covered with glittering stars and moons.
The fresher your mackerel the better - look for glassy eyes and bright, iridescent skin. Times, Sunday Times
When the Army software, owned by DHS, was turned on the bee remains, it detected not only the fungus, but also a virus known as the invertebrate iridescent virus (IIV). TIME.com: Top Stories
Stretching, Padraic closed his book and put his pipe into the huge iridescent paua shell which served him as an ashtray. The Thorn Birds
It appeared to be of fixed shape, a cylindroid almost ten kilometers in length and two in diameter, majestically rotating on its long axis, mother-of-pearl iridescent. The Boat of a Million Years
She was a small, colorfully dressed creature with very long blonde hair and iridescent blue eyeshadow.
June looks and feels more like February; the iridescent green of the trees and the rampant roses are oddly out of sync with the glowering grey clouds. Times, Sunday Times
Its body is albino and it has an intricate viridescent camouflage.
The tea menu is a tiny piece of delight, with descriptions that blithely use words like "velutinous" and "viridescent" and "vegetal" to describe their oolongs and whites and blacks. Archive 2008-10-01
An iridescent blue embroidered bomber jacket? Times, Sunday Times
If you've got the time, or the inclination, layer on a single stroke of eye shadow in sheer shades of lavender, iridescent plum, taupe or bronzy brown.
On the whole, then, it cannot be doubted that several symbolic motives are inwoven into the iridescent fabric of the play. The Master Builder
In the daytime there had been the basking ridge where great ribbed wings of iridescent green or gray or black, dull red or brown or yellow, stretched to channel the sun to the dragon's quickening savoring bodies.
The surreal absurdity of all this is a joy in itself, while the iridescent underwater scenes border on photorealism. Times, Sunday Times
Like that iridescent dragonfly hovering over the ponds in Hampstead when she was six. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
Everything to do with the Midlands has an unintentional, iridescent sheen of hilarity about it. Times, Sunday Times
It looked to be made of white silk and the hem and edges were embroidered with iridescent velvet.
It outguessed my every manoeuvre on the sandy bottom, and I ended the dive knackered, without one image of its huge iridescent blue pectoral fins splayed like a splendid fan to show for my efforts.
Fins on, reg in, I lowered myself into the clear liquid of the Blue Hole and dropped through the vertical cavern to fin out into the iridescent blue.
The head hooked from a thickly muscled, scaly neek and ran into a massive black chest shot through with lines of iridescent purple and azure. A Corridor in the Asylum
Green darners are large, showy dragonflies with silvery iridescent wings.
‘I also want to have a few trick ponies, for a circus exhibition,’ she said then allowed her maid to button her into a sleeveless gown of rich, iridescent black with falls of midnight lace and rows of glittering, jet beads.
In a good light, they gleam with iridescent purples and greens. Times, Sunday Times
Faith healer Kathryn Kuhlman, based on a Missouri-born evangelist from the 1960s - re-appropriated/inhabited by Justin Bond - sits perfectly poised upstage on her throne flanked by iridescent white lions. Roya Rastegar: Justin Bond and the House of Whimsy: Re:Galli Blonde (A Sissy Fix)
Pale or iridescent colours on walls and floors will help reflect light. Times, Sunday Times
What stood out above all else were her flirty, soft dresses in tulle and chiffon in pastel colours which, for the most part, were embroidered with sequins and antique beading and iridescent insets.
They are dull from a distance, audible by clicks and ribald whistles, and up close as glossy and iridescent as clockwork toys. Times, Sunday Times
In a good light, they gleam with iridescent purples and greens. Times, Sunday Times
The feathering is so intricate that it looks like the iridescent scales of a fish.
The saltwater univalve with the ear-shaped shell, iridescent inside, contains a rock-clinging creature which, when pounded thin and tender, like a scaloppine, holds pride of place at Chinese banquets. A New Shell Game
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
I have seen such as "February", for instance, in the Boston Museum, present for me the sensation of a man of great private spiritual and intellectual means, having the wish to express tactfully and convincingly his personal conclusions and reactions, leaning always toward the side of iridescent illusiveness rather than emotional blatancy and irrelevant extravagance. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
Breeding adults have yellow bills, iridescent feathers that shine purple and green and are flecked with white spots.
The drawings 'iridescent interference grounds spawn coloristically nuanced backdrops for marks that destabilize perception of consistent presence or absence, inertia or momentum. Artforum.com
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
Females, juveniles, and males in eclipse plumage (from May through August) are mottled brown with orange legs and a green-black iridescent speculum with a blue patch on the forewing.
Everything to do with the Midlands has an unintentional, iridescent sheen of hilarity about it. Times, Sunday Times
the shimmer of colors on iridescent feathers
Gleaming, iridescent mother-of-pearl possesses more than beauty.
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
At dawn that morning, the truck driver had pulled up in the fourteen-wheeler to a grassy clearing on the north bank of the Tana River, where crocodiles skulked in typhoidal water in the viridescent shadow of mangrove trees. Peace Meals
Cape back jackets, long flaring iridescent skirts and trousers with contrasting coloured inserts made for a sophisticated collection.
The ubiquitous saw grass rattles in the wind, while pond-apple trees, yellow pond lilies, and pickerelweed, with its iridescent purple flowers, line the riverbanks.
Farther off, several scattered towers reared twenty or thirty meters above the forest, iridescent and lacily graceful where ivylike growth had not overrun them. Starfarers
In these altar mosaics, iridescent Favrile glass, Tiffany's trademark in other work, was rejected in favor of opalescent Favrile glass and Byzantine style tesserae made with gold leaf.
Iridescent purple swamphens, lavished with outrageous lipstick (their bills and frontal shields actually) stomp over the leaves on gigantic spider feet, bobbing their ludicrous white-handkerchief tails behind them.
A mobile phone with an iridescent blue cover peeps from the top pocket.
Two green hairstreak butterflies, gracefully viridescent, dance past on a soft wind that sifts through reeds, sets waving the tall golden flower stems of bog asphodel, and silky white plumes of cottongrass that has colonised the old peat-diggings. Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon
P. testa ovata, umbilicata; spira mediocri, acuta, ad apicem integra, cornea, viridescente aut pallide fulva; anfractibus quinque, convexis, saepe plus minusve transversim subliratis; apertura ovata; labio reflexo, umbilicum partim tegente; labro vix incrassato, peristomate nigrescente. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
We'd dearly love to grab squares of iridescent fabric and twist them into fabulously flattering Jerry Hallesque wraps.
I sewed Hydrangea petals along the waistline attached with a single iridescent glass Mill Hill Bead and also added a few scattered throughout the bottom overskirt in the same manner.
The promontory on which Sorrento stands is barren enough, but southward rise pleasant cliffs viridescent with samphire, and beyond them purple hills dotted with white spots of houses. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Their long white necks were flecked with the tiniest feathers of iridescent azure and jade and they walked on their thin bright yellow legs with a magnificent strut.
Each arc had an iridescent crystal drop in the center of it, and loops of silver chains falling to her mid back from each.
Working on unprimed Belgian Linen and her 20 year collection of handmade Japanese papers, she enhances each piece with gold and silver leaf, glass frit, threads, metallic paints, inks and iridescent paints.
But if you chance to see a vulture up close, you will notice that this iridescent black bird's underwings are a satiny gray.
Pale or iridescent colours on walls and floors will help reflect light. Times, Sunday Times
In the pinworm soup there were squirming iridescent protozoa, single-celled giants that were almost as big as the multicellular worms. Parasite Rex
There wasn't any trick of the harp trade that Levalier missed as she glided through iridescent glissandos or swept through rippling arpeggios. In performance: KenCen Chamber Players
She was assisted by a familiar, dumpy middle-aged woman whose viridescent tinge owed nothing to her green dress. THE CURSE OF CHALION
At dawn that morning, the truck driver had pulled up in the fourteen-wheeler to a grassy clearing on the north bank of the Tana River, where crocodiles skulked in typhoidal water in the viridescent shadow of mangrove trees. Peace Meals
Impressionism, -- the one who has stated most precisely the femineity of this luminous and iridescent art. The French Impressionists (1860-1900)
Nosema fungus that researchers had previously suspected, and a DNA-virus called invertebrate iridescent virus (IIV). Ars Technica
An iridescent blue embroidered bomber jacket? Times, Sunday Times
Fortune, -- "Volve sua spera, e beata si gode:" the motive power of this wheel distinguishing its goddess from the fixed majesty of Necessitas with her iron nails; or [Greek: anankê], with her pillar of fire and iridescent orbits, _fixed_ at the centre. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
Today, its delicate strength and its iridescent pearlized glaze is enthusiastically purchased the world over.
Thorax very smooth and shining; the wings colourless and iridescent, their extreme base yellowish, the nervures and stigma brown, the tegulæ pale testaceous-yellow; the posterior tibiæ with a scopa of glittering white hairs, the tarsi ferruginous and with glittering hairs. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Where on earth can I find an iridescent diamond; without a scintillating shine.
Adult males have a pink-streaked iridescent throat-patch that can be held erect.
This will remove shine, leaving you with a slightly iridescent sheen. The Sun
Two green hairstreak butterflies, gracefully viridescent, dance past on a soft wind that sifts through reeds, sets waving the tall golden flower stems of bog asphodel, and silky white plumes of cottongrass that has colonised the old peat-diggings. Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon
It has an iridescent shiny ice pink dial with pink patent leather strap and a changeable sporty gel strap.
Moiré and mother of pearl pastel watch faces in colours like pink and aqua and agate will also capture an iridescent feel.
an iridescent oil slick
An iridescent blue embroidered bomber jacket? Times, Sunday Times
Her latest fashion collection features shimmering iridescent materials.
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
She gazes at her daughter, both faces iridescent with joy.
An iridescent sheen spread over the surface of the water below him, indicating a fuel leak.
I remember the dragonflies, damselflies and other insects, their colours iridescent in the bright sun.
The fresher your mackerel the better - look for glassy eyes and bright, iridescent skin. Times, Sunday Times
She was assisted by a familiar, dumpy middle-aged woman whose viridescent tinge owed nothing to her green dress. THE CURSE OF CHALION
If the butterfly can fly free with its wings of iridescent color, gardeners should be allowed to do the same.
Located in Pisa, Italy, the San Ranieri Hotel was completed last year, and features a vibrant nighttime display of iridescent colors that light up the exterior. The San Ranieri Hotel
An iridescent blue embroidered bomber jacket? Times, Sunday Times
Breeding adults have yellow bills, iridescent feathers that shine purple and green and are flecked with white spots.
Since flower petals are usually translucent, backlighting can give them an iridescent glow that accentuates the flower's color and brings it to life.
Because many of the iridescent glass wares were sold to fun-fairs it became known as Carnival Glass.
An iridescent sheen spread over the surface of the water below him, indicating a fuel leak.
In a good light, they gleam with iridescent purples and greens. Times, Sunday Times
In the fifth chapter, iridescent colors of two morpho butterflies and one insect are studied cursorily .
He picked a dark-aqua guitar that was iridescent and metallic.
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
Also distinguished by their long, erectile, iridescent tail feathers, which they spread at every opportunity
Sun shines on them like white gold and in the shade they become iridescent blue, eerie like glaciers or icebergs.
Several days later he spotted another huge, strong-flying, iridescent birdwing of the genus Ornithoptera, similar but not identical to the three he had caught in Celebes. The Song of The Dodo
The females of these big damselflies are metallic green; the males a deep, rich iridescent blue, and in flight they flash shining blue thumbprints on their four wings. Country diary: Elton, Cambridgeshire
The color of the siderite is grayish-white when cleaned, but in most instances it is a dull to iridescent reddish-brown because of alteration to iron oxides on the crystal surfaces.
If we approach carefully, the beautiful patterning on the soft tissues, the slender tentacles and iridescent eye spots can all be observed.
Spanish Fly refers to beautiful, iridescent green insects, Cantharis vesicatoria, which contain cantharidin, which is both a vesicant (causes blisters) and a diuretic.
Males attract mates using song, iridescent plumage and dramatic display flights.
Trochilines often have iridescent feathers of metallic red, orange, green and blue.
Apply a light layer along your shins and let the iridescent shimmer do its thing. The Sun
Where on earth can I find an iridescent diamond; without a scintillating shine.
They were made of every one of the light, hard, ornamental substances: glittering glassein, the colorful but opaque Ordine plastic, viridescent magnesitic berylium. The Weapon Shops of Isher
The black, uncoagulated, and incoagulable blood shows an iridescent scum on its surface, which is due to the fat of the animal dissolved by the ammonia produced by the decomposed tissues. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
The tea menu is a tiny piece of delight, with descriptions that blithely use words like "velutinous" and "viridescent" and "vegetal" to describe their oolongs and whites and blacks. Archive 2008-10-01
So the red army had won the cup and their third silver trophy gleamed amongst the iridescent confetti and brilliant white floodlights.
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
Her latest fashion collection features shimmering iridescent materials.
Apply a light layer along your shins and let the iridescent shimmer do its thing. The Sun
They seemed to taint the lower atmosphere with their glow, so that it did not surprise Gren to see cloud bars of viridescent hue, striping the sky. HOTHOUSE
On a clear day the rays of the summer sun pick out gems of iridescent blues and greens that are the creepy-crawlies, beetles and bugs among the bushes and wild flowers in my garden. Country diary: East Yorkshire
They are often iridescent, giving them a spectacular array of colours.
I bought a few unusual oilbars from traditional paint-makers for them to use: an iridescent, pearlescent color, silver, gold and colorless blenders.
It was chock-a-block full of interesting articles on geckos and eerily iridescent photos of deep-sea jellyfish, but for some reason the World magazines piled up in the corner until ones on the bottom began to smolder from the pressure of the magazines on the top. The Day The World Became Shut To Me
Apparent in flight, the speculum, or wing-patch, is dark iridescent-green, looking black at times, with white on the forewing.
It was a little too iridescent on first application but softened quickly and gave a subtle, welcome sheen. Times, Sunday Times
Ancona judges are looking for - among other things - white tips to all feathers, yellow legs with mottling, iridescent greeny / black colouring, a good red comb on the head with around five spikes and white ear lobes.
From the long tapering fingers of her right hand a golden chain dangled and swinging idly from its end hung a small iridescent vial.
Meanwhile, beyond the village peripheries, the Welsh hills were getting greener and greener - that iridescent, viridescent green that looks so wonderful on sunny days.
This magical iridescent phenomenon has entranced people for centuries both for its beauty and mystery.
Jabirus have a massive bill, long bright red legs and boldly marked black-and-white plumage - iridescent on the head and neck. They are a shy and retiring species.
Always wanting the greener grass in the past or the future, even though we're standing on the lushest, viridescent field we've ever seen? Mrbradley Diary Entry
The point to this dissertation -- if point be allowed by courtesy -- is directed, in a measure, at a clergyman in this city, who told gleefully of the break of a church officer in a prayer meeting, and yet the same preacher on the following Sunday night, used, in a brief petition, the words "circumambient," "iridescent" and "corollary. Idle Comments
A shimmering iridescent image showing bauhinia flowers appears when the banknote is tilted under a bright light.
They are dull from a distance, audible by clicks and ribald whistles, and up close as glossy and iridescent as clockwork toys. Times, Sunday Times
An iridescent blue embroidered bomber jacket? Times, Sunday Times
Looking at the woman, demurely gowned in mutedly iridescent silk, her fingers resting lightly on her husband's sleeve, Derian was at first inclined to dismiss those rumors as mere superstitious talk. Through Wolfs Eyes
But the chief glory of the grayling is the large iridescent fin on his back. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
It was a little too iridescent on first application but softened quickly and gave a subtle, welcome sheen. Times, Sunday Times
It was the althea-bud that grew in the summer-time of eighteen years ago, that had been Mary's, -- and my heart beat fast as I looked upon the silent voicefulness that spake up to me, and said, "To you, who have restored him to himself, he offers the same tribute;" and I lifted up the iridescent, flashing cradle of margarite, and reverently touched the ashes of althea it held with my lips. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
Within the fields of marks, partial images emerge: one can make out spirals, fans, sunbursts and even arrangements suggesting iridescent eyes or a sparkling butterfly wing.
The fresher your mackerel the better - look for glassy eyes and bright, iridescent skin. Times, Sunday Times
We'd dearly love to grab squares of iridescent fabric and twist them into fabulously flattering Jerry Hallesque wraps.
But it was soft enough and smile enough to make a pair of young men in cutaway coats hurry over, to pull their high hats off their wetted, iridescent hair; to bring them, flustered and bowing, to the edge of her landaulet, where her lavender gloves gently touched their gray ones. Tales of the Jazz Age
As she neared the object, she noticed it was an iridescent purple and pink.
I opted for freedom, though on many occasions continuing to use familiar metric forms, but rejuvenated within the iridescent world of metaphor.
The vitreous to iridescent luster is natural and not due to secondary treatment.
Large checks, iridescent fabrics and decadent velvet are all worn with attitude.
The worst of the worst what is left after basic consummation the longitudinal fibroma of sugarcane stalks the iridescent pulp.
With her iridescent fuchsia toenails and caramel-tinted hair, Liang Yali does not exactly fit the stereotype of the "made in China" worker bee.
The iridescent posterboy of sustainability was at risk from overfishing. Times, Sunday Times
Eyeing a green-banded swallowtail fluttering above him, Samson takes a running leap and with a deft swoop of his net catches the iridescent butterfly.
Three decades earlier, Kokichi Mikimoto, the son of a noodle maker in Toba, Japan, had perfected a method to culture pearls, the process by which a bead or piece of mantle tissue is implanted inside the fleshy part of a mollusk, forcing the creature to secrete an iridescent substance called nacre that forms a pearl. NYT > Home Page
An iridescent colour is a colour that changes with the angle of view.
But the hair or scales or feathers of monsters are gorgeously coloredfuchsia, turquoise, sparkly bronze, iridescent greenand their minds have the power to control the minds of humans. Kristin Cashore - An interview with author
Some of the fabrics highlighted were silk/cotton double-face duchesse satin, silk/linen jacquards and a new subtle threecolor iridescent taffeta.
Hanne's swimsuit is iridescent blue, her hair red gold. BRASIL AS A GIRL
The bulblike glass dome is like an enormous dewdrop of beautiful proportions and iridescent color. The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
The skin was covered in small black scales, no longer glittering with the iridescent purple hues that most had.
The strongly iridescent colors of bird feathers are produced by arrays of melanin granules in the barbules of feathers.
Close-cropping and the primacy of grisaille - composed of complex black, luminous gray and iridescent white - keep the paintings away from the literality of seascape and any hint of tonal lyricism.
He wears iridescent formal clothes, prances around with a tapering rod that ignites anything it touches, and trails a gust of hot air.
Moving to canvas, he rolls on a base color and a layer of iridescent pigment, then uses a squeegee to apply from 9 to 20 layers of iridescent glazes.
He then puckered neon light through the mural, creating an iridescent glow.
Delphinium viridescens most closely resembles Delphinium multiplex, but may be distinguished using the following characters: Delphinium viridescens is typically 3-5 feet tall; sepals are iridescent purplish-yellow or greenish-yellow; and in some instances, the degree of basal and cauline leaf dissection has been observed to be greater in Delphinium viridescens, although immature specimens of Delphinium viridescens and Delphinium multiplex cannot readily be distinguished on this character. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Thorax: the sides of the metathorax, the floccus on the posterior femora and the postscutellum with whitish pubescence, the latter produced in the middle into a blunt tooth; the legs fusco-ferruginous, with the anterior tibiæ and apical joints of the tarsi brighter; wings hyaline and iridescent. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
The softened electric light suffused a glamour of glowing color over the rich brocade of the walls of Marcus Gard's library, catching a glint here and there on iridescent plaques, or a mellow high light on the luscious patine of an antique bronze. Out of the Ashes
Her hair was pulled up into a bun that let tight ringlets dangle down, her dress was white and iridescent.
They were viridescent, almost metallic hued — verd-antique. The Moon Pool
Males attract mates using song, iridescent plumage and dramatic display flights.
In a good light, they gleam with iridescent purples and greens. Times, Sunday Times
It seems anything that catches my eye with an iridescent quality, I am uncontrollably drawn to.
Flatform pumps finished with iridescent sequins and leather toe caps keep you comfortably sky-high.
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
In the manner of superheroes, both were dressed in sleek, formfitting, iridescent outfits that advertised their fitness and firmness and enhanced the resplendence of their bodies in action. Albertine Takes A Tumble

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