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Pellucid vs Vitreous - What's the difference?

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Pellucid is a related term of vitreous.


As adjectives the difference between pellucid and vitreous

is that pellucid is allowing the passage of light; transparent while vitreous is of or resembling glass; glassy.

As a noun vitreous is

(by elision) the vitreous humor.

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

    vitreous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or resembling glass; glassy.
  • Of or relating to the vitreous humor of the eye.
  • (of ceramics) Having a shiny nonporous surface.
  • (chemistry) Of a semi-crystalline substance where the atoms exhibit short-range order, but without the long-range order of a crystal.
  • (physics, dated) Positive (of electric charge).
  • Antonyms

    * (electric charge) resinous

    Derived terms

    * vitreous humour / vitreous humor

    Noun

    (-)
  • (by elision) The vitreous humor.