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IRIDESCE

Dictionary entry overview: What does iridesce mean?

• IRIDESCE (verb)
The verb IRIDESCE has 1 sense:

1. be iridescent

Familiarity information: IRIDESCE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• IRIDESCE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Be iridescent

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

The corals iridesced under the surface of the clear water

Hypernyms (to "iridesce" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "iridesce"):

opalesce (exhibit a play of colors like that of an opal)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

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