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English Dictionary: nacreous by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nacreous
adj
  1. consisting of or resembling mother-of-pearl
  2. having a play of lustrous rainbow colors; "an iridescent oil slick"; "nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl"; "a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster"
    Synonym(s): iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nacreous \Na"cre*ous\, a. [See {Nacre}.] (Zo[94]l.)
      Consisting of, or resembling, nacre; pearly.
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