IRIDESCE

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 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)

Present simple: I / you / we / they iridesce    ... he / she / it iridesces   
Past simple: iridesced   
Past participle: iridesced   
-ing form: iridescing   

Sense 1

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

Derivation:

iridescence (the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface)

iridescent (having a play of lustrous rainbow colors)

iridescent (varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles)