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nacreous
/ ˈneɪkrɪəs /
adjective
- relating to or consisting of mother-of-pearl
- having the lustre of mother-of-pearl
nacreous minerals
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- sub·nacre·ous adjective
- un·nacre·ous adjective
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Example Sentences
It is seldom as much as half an inch in length, and has a nacreous interior.
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It is an essentially beautiful and satisfying contribution to modern painting, this nacreous cubism of Marie Laurencin.
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Two kinds of shell-substance are at once distinguishable in an oyster-shell, an outer brown, and an inner pearly or nacreous.
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The interior is nacreous, and of a greenish colour, with a white patch round the columella.
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Shell not nacreous, without umbilicus, with prominent spire and polished surface.
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