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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

pellucid
    adj 1: transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity;
           "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal
           clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the
           limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook";
           "transparent crystal" [syn: crystalline, crystal
           clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent]
    2: (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable;
       "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent
       oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear
       explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" [syn: limpid,
       lucid, luculent, pellucid, crystal clear,
       perspicuous]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pellucid \Pel*lu"cid\, a. [L. pellucidus; per (see Per-) +
   lucidus clear, bright: cf. F. pellucide.]
   Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque.
   "Pellucid crystal." --Dr. H. More. "Pellucid streams."
   --Wordsworth.
   [1913 Webster] Pellucidity

Thesaurus Results for Pellucid:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Attic, Ciceronian, chaste, classic, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, cloudless, coherent, connected, consistent, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, defined, definite, diaphane, diaphanous, direct, distinct, easy, elegant, explicit, express, filmy, finished, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, graceful, gracile, light, light-pervious, lightish, lightsome, limpid, loud and clear, lucent, lucid, luculent, luminous, natural, neat, nonopaque, peekaboo, perspicuous, plain, polished, pure, refined, relucent, restrained, revealing, round, see-through, semipellucid, semitranslucent, serene, sheer, simple, straightforward, tasteful, terse, thin, translucent, translucid, transparent, transpicuous, trim, unaffected, unambiguous, unclouded, unconfused, unequivocal, univocal, unlabored, unmistakable, unobscured, well-defined

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