pearl
/pɜːl/
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. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.; Nacre; mother-of-pearl; Something precious
- Plural
- pearls
Bedeutungen
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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. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.; Nacre; mother-of-pearl
He stopped looking for the pearl.
Er hörte auf, nach der Perle zu suchen.
Tatoeba · Swift · CC BY 2.0 FR
Mary claims you stole her pearls.
Tatoeba · mailohilohi · CC BY 2.0 FR
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Something precious
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A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for, e.g., medicinal applicationselten
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A whitish speck or film on the eyeselten
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A fish allied to the turbot; the brillselten
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A light-colored ternselten
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One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antlerselten
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A fringe or borderselten
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A valuable little nugget of information; especially, an aphorism or tip that is operationally useful for decision-makingselten
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The clitorisselten