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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PELLU'CID, a. [L. pellucidus; per and lucidus; very bright. See Light.] Perfectly clear; transparent; not opake; as a body as pellucid as crystal.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; "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" [syn: crystalline, crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent]
2: (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" [syn: limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid, crystal clear, perspicuous]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin pellucidus, from per through + lucidus lucid — more at for Date: 1610 1. admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion <a pellucid stream> 2. reflecting light evenly from all surfaces 3. easy to understand • pellucidly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 (of water, light, etc.) transparent, clear. 2 (of style, speech, etc.) not confused; clear. 3 mentally clear. Derivatives: pellucidity n. pellucidly adv. Etymology: L pellucidus f. perlucere (as PER-, lucere shine)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pellucid Pel*lu"cid, 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is pellucid is extremely clear. (LITERARY) ...her pellucid blue eyes... ...the warm pellucid water. = limpid ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Clear, limpid, crystalline, bright, lucid, translucent, diaphanous.

Moby Thesaurus

Attic, Ciceronian, chaste, classic, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, cloudless, coherent, connected, consistent, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, defined, definite, diaphane, diaphanous, direct, distinct, easy, elegant, explicit, express, filmy, finished, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, graceful, gracile, light, light-pervious, lightish, lightsome, limpid, loud and clear, lucent, lucid, luculent, luminous, natural, neat, nonopaque, peekaboo, perspicuous, plain, polished, pure, refined, relucent, restrained, revealing, round, see-through, semipellucid, semitranslucent, serene, sheer, simple, straightforward, tasteful, terse, thin, translucent, translucid, transparent, transpicuous, trim, unaffected, unambiguous, unclouded, unconfused, unequivocal, univocal, unlabored, unmistakable, unobscured, well-defined