iridescent_green colors

Literary analysis:

Iridescent green is often deployed in literature to evoke a sense of otherworldly brilliance and dynamic life, whether describing creatures or crafted environments. In natural history descriptions, the hue appears on insects and reptiles alike—a wasp described as "iridescent greenish blue" ([1]), spiders and iguanas bearing iridescent scales or heads ([2], [3]), and even subtle human details like labials and temporals enhancing a portrait with a touch of shimmer ([4]). Meanwhile, its use expands beyond fauna; smooth, glowing walls ([5]) and inlaid stones ([6]) are rendered in iridescent green to evoke a surreal, almost magical atmosphere. Through these varied applications, authors use iridescent green to communicate both the vibrant vitality of nature and the enchanting beauty of artfully constructed settings.

Conspicuous among well-defended insects are the dark steely or iridescent greenish blue fossorial wasps or sand-wasps, Sphex and the allied genera.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
—A small and very active spider marked with gray and white and having on the abdomen iridescent green scales (fig. 31) .
— from The Common Spiders of the United States by J. H. (James Henry) Emerton
A great iguana peered at him from a palm immediately behind: its iridescent greenish head and dark eyes faced the ground, the tongue licked out.
— from When the Owl Cries by Paul Alexander Bartlett
Labials and temporals minutely dotted with iridescent greenish, [46] silvery, or bronze.
— from Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 3, Volume 4 (Zoology) by Various
Those whose escape I blocked dropped their weapons and shrank back against the smooth, iridescent green walls.
— from The Airlords of Han by Philip Francis Nowlan
The figures of writhing snakes and rearing reptiles were inlaid into the black walls with some iridescent green stone.
— from The Golden Amazons of Venus by John Murray Reynolds

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