"pellucid" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means "transparent" or "easy to understand", and can be used in a variety of contexts to describe either literal or figurative transparency. Example sentence: "The narrator's explanations of the complex plot were surprisingly pellucid."
Bagehot's vocabulary is certainly pellucid, in that the words mean exactly what he intends, unlike the mysterious utterances of adolescents or the various impenetrable professional jargons of today.Hilary Potts LondonSIR – I was intrigued by the absence of "rebarbative", "jejune" and "ineluctable" from the reader's "Concise Oxford English Dictionary".
The other is the symbolism of transparent, bright images that are logical and which form a pellucid part of an exfoliating narrative the symbolism of Flaubert and of the Joyce of "Ulysses".
It is thought to be inadvisable to spend more than two hours contemplating its pellucid waters.
The leaves are borne in two ranks on the stem and have pellucid dots; the stipules are large and encircle the stem.
This was a delicately coloured, coolly tempered reading of Debussy's Three Nocturnes, the strings pellucid, the flute and harp chaste, each accent placed just so, unhurried and subtle.
As well as performing swinging trios, cover versions of Beatles tunes and pellucid solo improvisations, Mehldau writes articles such as "Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Beethoven and God".
OK, if they had been playing in Birmingham's Symphony Hall – built to satisfy the demands of the CBSO's then music-director Simon Rattle – the sound would have been even more pellucid.
In mammals the egg is surrounded by the so-called pellucid zone, which is equivalent to the vitelline membrane of other animals; follicle cells form an area called the corona radiata around this zone.
Thomas Jeremyy Irons and Katharinee (the pellucid Joan Allen) are co-workers at a gallery — although Katharine, a wounded romantic, is more in the business of dissuading customers from buying her favorite pieces than of selling them.
(I use that word to evoke its dependence on the script, and its usefulness in conveying the script's substance with a pellucid efficiency).
There's a lot more to it — including the presence of Ewa's tubercular sister, Magda, who remains quarantined at Ellis Island, and for whose upkeep and release Ewa works — and Gray unfolds the strands of the plot with pellucid precision and in evocative detail.
