Translucent Venus Teal

Latin trans-lūcēre, to shine through — present-participle of translucere. As a color modifier, translucent implies a clear-and-light-passing quality where the hue allows partial light-transmission through its visual surface. Sits at the crisp-and-clear end of the grid, parallel to pellucid and vitreous in usage.

Latin Venus, Roman-goddess-and-second-planet. As a color modifier, venus implies a Roman-goddess-and-second-planet-and-morning-evening-star quality, the visual register of Botticelli-Birth-of-Venus-and-Pompeii-fresco hand-Roman-goddess-and-second-planet-and-morning-evening-star Botticelli-Birth-of-Venus-and-Pompeii-fresco-and-Aphrodite-Hellenic venus-and-Roman-goddess-and-second-planet surfaces under Botticelli-Birth-of-Venus-and-Pompeii-fresco-and-Aphrodite-Hellenic Florentine-and-Pompeian dawn-and-dusk-evening-star-light. Sits at the modifier-and-zodiac end of the grid, parallel to jupiter and saturn in usage.

Anas crecca, the small dabbling duck whose male in breeding plumage sports a chestnut head crossed by a glossy green-blue stripe. The color refers to that stripe — the iridescent panel just behind the eye: a saturated, slightly muted blue-green with the optical depth of structural color rather than pigment. Cooler than cypress, warmer than cerulean, with the ornithological specificity of a color named for one feather of one bird.