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Crystalline

adjective

Consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals.

Distinctly or sharply outlined.

Transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity. Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent. "Crystal clear skies" , "Could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool" , "Lucid air" , "A pellucid brook" , "Transparent crystal"

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— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg

... fisher's line Already a huge Triton blows his horn, And weaves a garland from the crystalline And drifting ocean-tendrils to adorn The emerald pillars of our bridal bed, For sphered in foaming silver, and ...

— Poems • Oscar Wilde

... it, as if it had been heroically snatched from the nether fires, into which it had been thrown by dyspeptic Puritans; the dessert was as splendid as ever, with its golden oranges, brown nuts, and the crystalline light and dark of apple-jelly and damson cheese; in all these things Christmas was as it had always been since Tom could remember; it was only distinguished, it by anything, by superior ...

— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot

... with difficulty, and only by one or two known paths. To the pedestrian it is a task; and there are places into which he even cannot penetrate without scaling cliffs and traversing chasms deep and dangerous. It bristles with cactus, zuccas, and other forms of crystalline vegetation, characteristic of a barren soil. But there are spots of great fertility—hollows where the volcanic ashes were deposited—forming little oases, into which the honest Indian finds his way ...

— The Free Lances - A Romance of the Mexican Valley • Mayne Reid

... finished, raised cries of rapture at seeing it standing there among bits of wood, which figured trees. And then the softened glances of the parents strayed now through the window towards the crops sleeping beneath the crystalline rime, and now towards their last-born's cradle, where hope was ...

— Fruitfulness - Fecondite • Emile Zola

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