lucent
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈl(j)uːsənt/
Adjective

lucent

  1. Emitting light; shining, luminous.
  2. Translucent; clear, lucid.
    • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 9-10:
      her dilated eyes fixed with a horror-stricken fascination upon the pygmy burial-ground, in that broad, lucent expanse of the yellow moonlight which was still streaming through the illuminated gorge of the mountains into an otherwise dusky world.
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