mother-of-pearl : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mother-of-pearl	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for mother-of-pearl
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mother-of-pearl n the iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell [syn: mother-of-pearl, nacre]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mother-of-pearl \Moth"er-of-pearl`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See {Pearl}.