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- Pearly - a. - Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells.
- Pearly - a. - Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
- Pearly - a. - Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
- Thuringite - n. - A mineral occurring as an aggregation of minute scales having an olive-green color and pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia and iron.
- Mother-of-pearl - n. - The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
- Brucite - n. - A white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like talc, and also fibrous; a native magnesium hydrate.
- Pyrophyllite - n. - A mineral, usually of a white or greenish color and pearly luster, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of alumina.
- Pearlaceous - a. - Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.
- Nacre - n. - A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl. [Written also nacker and naker.] See Pearl, and Mother-of-pearl.
- Opalescence - n. - A reflection of a milky or pearly light from the interior of a mineral, as in the moonstone; the state or quality of being opalescent.
- Diaspore - n. - A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.
- Chinchilla - n. - A small rodent (Chinchilla lanigera), of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili.
- Heulandite - n. - A mineral of the Zeolite family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly luster on the cleavage face. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.
- Avicula - n. - A genus of marine bivalves, having a pearly interior, allied to the pearl oyster; -- so called from a supposed resemblance of the typical species to a bird.
- Tyrolite - n. - A translucent mineral of a green color and pearly or vitreous luster. It is a hydrous arseniate of copper.
- Fiorite - n. - A variety of opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses, having a pearly luster; -- so called from Fiora, in Ischia.
- Turbo - n. - Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidae, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum.
- Lurg - n. - A large marine annelid (Nephthys caeca), inhabiting the sandy shores of Europe and America. It is whitish, with a pearly luster, and grows to the length of eight or ten inches.
- Phlogopite - n. - A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronze-red or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica.
- Tetrabranchiata - n. pl. - An order of Cephalopoda having four gills. Among living species it includes only the pearly nautilus. Numerous genera and species are found in the fossil state, such as Ammonites, Baculites, Orthoceras, etc.
- Stilbite - n. - A common mineral of the zeolite family, a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime, usually occurring in sheaflike aggregations of crystals, also in radiated masses. It is of a white or yellowish color, with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. Called also desmine.
- Margarite - n. - A mineral related to the micas, but low in silica and yielding brittle folia with pearly luster.
- Enerlasting - n. - A plant whose flowers may be dried without losing their form or color, as the pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle of the French, the cudweeds, etc.
- Pearly - a. - Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells.
- Ehlite - n. - A mineral of a green color and pearly luster; a hydrous phosphate of copper.
- Trigonia - n. - A genus of pearly bivalve shells, numerous extinct species of which are characteristic of the Mesozoic rocks. A few living species exist on the coast of Australia.
- Argentine - n. - A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.