Pellucid vs Crystalline - What's the difference?
pellucid | crystalline | Related terms |
Allowing the passage of light; transparent.
* 1857 , , The Coral Island , ch. 16:
Easily understood; clear.
* 1999 , , Preface:
of, relating to, or composed of crystals
(chemistry) having a regular three-dimensional molecular structure
resembling crystal in being clear and transparent
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)- . . . 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.
- 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.