Usually means: Emit iridescent colors like opal.
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  1. opalesce: Merriam-Webster
  2. opalesce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. opalesce: Collins English Dictionary
  4. opalesce: Vocabulary.com
  5. opalesce: Wordnik
  6. opalesce: Wiktionary
  7. opalesce: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Opalesce, opalesce: Dictionary.com
  9. Opalesce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. opalesce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. opalesce: Rhymezone
  12. Opalesce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. opalesce: FreeDictionary.org
  14. opalesce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. opalesce: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  To be opalescent; to give forth a play of colours, like the opal.

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opalise, opalize, pegmatize, feldspathize, metamictize, photoluminesce, noodle, adularize, ocher, mineralize, more...

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opalise, opalize, pegmatize, feldspathize, metamictize, photoluminesce, noodle, adularize, ocher, mineralize, more...



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