| pellucidness | (n) passing light without diffusion or distortion, Syn. limpidity, pellucidity |
| zona pellucida | (n) thick membrane around the mammalian ovum; can be penetrated by one sperm in the fertilization process; usually remains around the fertilized egg until it is implanted in the wall of the uterus |
| clarity | (n) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression, Syn. clearness, pellucidity, lucidity, limpidity, lucidness, Ant. obscurity, unclearness |
| crystalline | (adj) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity, Syn. lucid, limpid, crystal clear, pellucid, transparent, Example: 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 |
| limpid | (adj) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; ; ; - Robert Burton, Syn. lucid, perspicuous, luculent, crystal clear, pellucid, Example: writes in a limpid style; lucid directions; a luculent oration; pellucid prose; a crystal clear explanation; a perspicuous argument |
| lucidly | (adv) in a clear and lucid manner, Syn. pellucidly, limpidly, perspicuously, Example: this is a lucidly written book |
| Pellucid | 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 ] |
| Pellucidly | adv. In a pellucid manner. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Pellucidness | { } n. [ L. pelluciditas. ] The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Pellucidity |
| Semipellucid | a. Half clear, or imperfectly transparent; as, a semipellucid gem. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Semipellucidity | n. The quality or state of being imperfectly transparent. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Subpellucid | a. Somewhat pellucid; nearly pellucid. [ 1913 Webster ] |
