Pellucid Definition

pə-lo͝osĭd
adjective
Transparent or translucent; clear.
Webster's New World
Easy to understand; clear and simple in style.
A pellucid explanation.
Webster's New World

Easily understood; clear.

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Origin of Pellucid

  • From Latin pellÅ«cidus, from per- (“very") + lÅ«cidus (“clear, bright") (from whence lucid), from lÅ«ceō (“shine, be visible"). Compare clear, crystal clear, both also with literal meaning “transparent" but metaphorical meaning “easily understood".

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin pellūcidus from pellūcēre to shine through per- through per– lūcēre to shine leuk- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Pellucid Sentence Examples

  • D, Each of the four segment-cells gives rise by division to a small pellucid cell.

  • The St Lawrence varies only a few feet in the year and always has pellucid bluish-green water, while the Mississippi, whose tributaries begin only a short distance south of the Great Lakes, varies 40 f t.

  • E, The cap of small cells has increased in number by repeated formation of pellucid cells in the same way, and by division of those first formed.

  • Successive nations perchance have drank at, admired, and fathomed it, and passed away, and still its water is green and pellucid as ever.

  • In consequence of its low refractive and dispersive power, colourless pellucid fluor-spar is valuable in the construction of apochromatic lenses, but this variety is rare.

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