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Pearl :: Pearl (n.) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed

Pearl :: Pearl (n.) A light-colored tern.

Marasritaceous :: Marasritaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly..

Pearly :: Pearly (a.) Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells..

Carat :: Carat (n.) The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed.

Ehlite :: Ehlite (n.) A mineral of a green color and pearly luster; a hydrous phosphate of copper.

Pearlaceous :: Pearlaceous (a.) Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.

Adularia :: Adularia (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone..

Opalescence :: Opalescence (n.) A reflection of a milky or pearly light from the interior of a mineral, as in the moonstone; the state or quality of being opalescent..

Chaplet :: Chaplet (n.) A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc..

Opalescent :: Opalescent (a.) Reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior; having an opaline play of colors.

Pearlstone :: Pearlstone (n.) A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under Perlitic..

Pearl :: Pearl (n.) A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.

Nucula :: Nucula (n.) A genus of small marine bivalve shells, having a pearly interior..

Pearl :: Pearl (v. t.) To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively..

Alburn :: Alburn (n.) The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls..

Pearl :: Pearl (v. i.) To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling..

Perlitic :: Perlitic (a.) Relating to or resembling perlite, or pearlstone; as, the perlitic structure of certain rocks. See Pearlite..

Pearl-eyed :: Pearl-eyed (a.) Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.

Bdellium :: Bdellium (n.) An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia..

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