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Definition of Mother-of-pearl
1. Noun. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
Definition of Mother-of-pearl
1. Adjective. Made from or looking like mother-of-pearl; iridescent or pearly. ¹
2. Noun. The hard pearly inner layer of certain mollusk shells; nacre. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Mother-of-pearl
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mother-of-pearl
Literary usage of Mother-of-pearl
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"In examining the light transmitted through the mother-of-pearl, we shall perceive
phenomena ... In pieces of mother-of-pearl that are irregularly formed, ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"Father Woodman's comparison of the appearance to a structure of mother of pearl
was generally recognized as good, but different observers differed on the ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... and almost hidden under an interweaving of bright-coloured plumage, and further
decorated around the top with pendants of shining mother-of-pearl. ..."
4. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1832)
"On new Properties of Light exhibited in the optical Phenomena of Mother-of-Pearl,
and other Bodies to which the superficial structure of that Substance can ..."
5. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1859)
"measurable angles are often met with at the surface of the mother-of-pearl layen.
Generally, several of them are grouped together, the upper ones being ..."
6. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"Three of tliese are gold hoops without pendant crosses, jewelled, enriched with
repoussé work and mother-of-pearl. One is decorated with an arcade of ..."
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