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From Latin pellūcidus, from per- (“very”) + lūcidus (“clear, bright”) (whence lucid), from lūceō (“shine, be visible”). Surface analysis per- +‎ lucid; compare perfervid. Compare clear, crystal clear, both also with literal meaning “transparent” but metaphorical meaning “easily understood”.

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pellucid (comparative more pellucid, superlative most pellucid)

Allowing the passage of light; transparent. 1857 , R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island , ch. 16: . . . and the bright seaweeds and the brilliant corals shone in the depths of that pellucid water, as we rowed over it, like rare and precious gems.

, R. M. Ballantyne, , ch. 16: 1862 , Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market" in Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems , The World's Classics, Oxford University Press, 1913, 173-179, [1] You cannot think what figs / My teeth have met in, / What melons icy-cold / Piled on a dish of gold / Too huge for me to hold, / What peaches with a velvet nap; / Pellucid grapes without one seed: [ … ]

, Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market" in , The World's Classics, Oxford University Press, 1913, 173-179, [1] 1979, Time, 22 October, 1979, [2] Opera star Tozzi sings with the richness of burnished bronze and Daniels complements him with her pellucid soprano. Easily understood; clear. 1994 , Fritz Lanham in Houston Chronicle , 13 November, 1994, [3], Written in spare, pellucid prose, the book reads like a close-to-the-bone memoir.

, Fritz Lanham in , 13 November, 1994, [3], 1999, Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, Preface: If I treat that grammar as pellucid, then I fail to call attention precisely to that sphere of language that establishes and disestablishes intelligibility, and that would be precisely to thwart my own project as I have described it to you here.

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