nacre
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A well-known example is nacre, which is used in jewellery because of its iridescent colours.
From Science Daily • Jan. 12, 2024
Dull on the outside, its nacre gleams pearlescent within.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2021
Some bivalves like oysters and mussels have the unique ability to secrete and deposit a calcareous nacre or “mother of pearl” around foreign particles that enter the mantle cavity.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
The oyster reacts to the introduction of the foreign body by coating it with layers of nacre - crystallized calcium carbonate and an organic protein.
From BBC • Sep. 9, 2012
Listen: A pearl is nothing more or less than nacre, a fluid secretion of a certain variety of oyster—not the eatable kind.
From Aunt Jane's Nieces out West by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
