"opalescent" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From opal + -escent. First attested in 1813.",
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      "form": "more opalescent",
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      "form": "most opalescent",
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          "ref": "1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 9",
          "text": "Below me, through the opalescent surface, I saw the white ghost of the Cessna.",
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        "Exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal."
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          "iridescence",
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal",
          "word": "opaalinhohtoinen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal",
          "word": "opaalinen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal",
          "word": "opalescent"
        },
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          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "dūdhiyā",
          "sense": "exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal",
          "word": "दूधिया"
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal",
          "word": "ópalach"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal",
          "word": "opalescente"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal",
          "word": "opalescente"
        },
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal",
          "word": "opalescent"
        },
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal",
          "word": "opalescente"
        }
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    {
      "ipa": "/oʊpəˈlɛsənt/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛsənt"
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  "word": "opalescent"
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      "form": "more opalescent",
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      "form": "most opalescent",
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal",
      "word": "opaalinhohtoinen"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal",
      "word": "opaalinen"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal",
      "word": "opalescent"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "dūdhiyā",
      "sense": "exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal",
      "word": "दूधिया"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal",
      "word": "ópalach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal",
      "word": "opalescente"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal",
      "word": "opalescente"
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      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal",
      "word": "opalescent"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal",
      "word": "opalescente"
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  "word": "opalescent"
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