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Pellucid vs Crystalline - What's the difference?

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Pellucid is a related term of crystalline.


As adjectives the difference between pellucid and crystalline

is that pellucid is allowing the passage of light; transparent while crystalline is of, relating to, or composed of crystals.

As a noun crystalline is

(obsolete) any crystalline substance.

pellucid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Allowing the passage of light; transparent.
  • * 1857 , , The Coral Island , ch. 16:
  • . . . and the bright seaweeds and the brilliant corals shone in the depths of that pellucid water, as we rowed over it, like rare and precious gems.
  • Easily understood; clear.
  • * 1999 , , Preface:
  • If I treat that grammar as pellucid , then I fail to call attention precisely to that sphere of language that establishes and disestablishes intelligibility, and that would be precisely to thwart my own project as I have described it to you here.

    Synonyms

    * (allowing passage of light) clear, limpid, lucid, translucent * (easily understood) clear, crystal clear, lucid, translucent

    crystalline

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, relating to, or composed of crystals
  • (chemistry) having a regular three-dimensional molecular structure
  • resembling crystal in being clear and transparent
  • Antonyms

    * amorphous

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Any crystalline substance.
  • (obsolete) aniline
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