opal
noun
a mineral, an amorphous form of silica, SiO 2 with some water of hydration, found in many varieties and colors, including a form that is milky white.
opal-like
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a word derived from
opal.
Example Sentences
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The team will keep an eye out for exposures of opal-like rocks that have recently been spotted from space.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 25, 2020
This is Peter Hall's fourth production of Shakespeare's most beautiful, opal-like comedy.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2011
The landscape effect is the opal-like sky and bright light full of moisture after rain—heavy clouds hang above—the mountains are a leaden blue—and the sky of all exquisite pale shades of bright colour.
From Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books by Horatia K. F. Eden
It displays an upper edging of radiant blue, a broad band of iridescent pink with greenish opal-like lights, and a narrow streak of the richest emerald green, close along the back.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
I see you, miss," he said, turning the fixed eyes of opal-like stone, bloodshot with little rubites, upon Barbara, "I see you, though you no see me, for these eyes made very cunning.
From A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa by Henry Rider Haggard
