adularescent.

Displaying the soft, floating-looking sheen associated especially with moonstone, often white or bluish.

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Words that belong together

• an adularescent moonstone
• an adularescent sheen

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The adularescent moonstone showed a blue-white sheen as the pendant turned.

An adularescent glow seemed to hover beneath the polished surface.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Relational or color adjective; more and most only in a natural qualitative comparison. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.