mother-of-pearl

English

Adjective

mother-of-pearl (not comparable)

1. Made from or looking like mother-of-pearl; iridescent or pearly.

Noun

mother-of-pearl (uncountable)

1. The hard pearly inner layer of certain mollusk shells; nacre.

Synonyms

• nacre

Translations

the hard pearly inner layer of certain mollusk shells

• Arabic: عرق اللؤلؤ m (ʿarq al-luʾlúʾ), صدف m (ṣádaf)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 珍珠母 (zhēnzhūmǔ), 珧 (yáo)

• Danish: perlemor
• Dutch: parelmoer (nl)
• Finnish: helmiäinen
• French: nacre (fr) f
• German: Perlmutter (de) f
• Greek: φίλντισι n (fílntisi)
• Icelandic: perlumóðir f
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• Japanese: 真珠層 (しんじゅそう, shinjusō), 真珠母 (しんじゅぼ, shinjubo)
• Macedonian: седеф m (sédef)
• Norwegian: perlemor (no) n
• Russian: перламутр m (perlamútr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:

  Roman:

• Spanish: nácar m
• Swedish: pärlemoder c, pärlemor c

See also

• (noun) pearl

References

• “mother-of-pearl”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “mother-of-pearl”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "mother-of-pearl" in On-line Medical Dictionary, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1997–2005.
• "mother-of-pearl" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.