structural color
noun
: a color or color component due to interference of light (as in thin films), diffraction (as by a grating), refractive dispersion (as in a rainbow), differential scattering, or differential polarization
colors of most bodies are due largely to selective absorption with some superposed structural color
Word History
First Known Use
1882, in the meaning defined above
- mountain rose
- mountain rosebay
- mountain sage
- mountain sandwort
- mountain sheep
- mountain sickness
- mountain snow
- mountain soap
- mountain sorrel
- mountain sparrow
- mountain specter
- mountain spinach
- mountain spleenwort
- mountain spruce
- Mountain Standard Time
- mountain starwort
- mountain sucker
- mountain sumac
- mountain tea
- mountain tent
- mountain thrush
- mountain time
- mountain timothy
- mountain trout
- Mountain View