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| iridescent |
emitting or reflecting a lustrous play of colors covering the spectrum, like a rainbow. [1/2 definitions] |
| prism |
a transparent, usu. glass solid with parallel ends of the same size and shape and parallelograms as sides, used to bend light so as to produce the continuous color spectrum of a rainbow. [1/2 definitions] |
| spectrum |
an array of a physical system or phenomenon according to the magnitude of one of its properties such as mass or wavelength, esp. an array of light in the order of wavelengths that produces the rainbow. [1/2 definitions] |
| steelhead |
a rainbow trout that migrates to the sea before returning to spawn in fresh water. |
| sunbow |
a small rainbow created by the refraction of the sun's rays through fine spray, as from a waterfall or sprinkler. |
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