Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pellucid"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pellucid \Pel*lu"cid\, a. [L. pellucidus; per (see {Per-}) +
lucidus clear, bright: cf. F. pellucide.]
Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque.
``Pellucid crystal.'' --Dr. H. More. ``Pellucid streams.''
--Wordsworth.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pellucid
adj 1: transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity;
"the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal
clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the
limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook";
"transparent cristal" [syn: {crystalline}, {crystal
clear}, {limpid}, {lucid}, {transparent}]
2: (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable;
"writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a
luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a
crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" [syn:
{limpid}, {lucid}, {luculent}, {crystal clear}, {perspicuous}]
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