Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling pearls or mother-of-pearl: pearly; nacreous; margaritaceous.
- Dotted or flecked with white, as if pearled, as a bird's plumage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling
pearl ormother-of-pearl ;pearly .
Etymologies
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pearl + -aceous
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Examples
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Body black; antennae piceous, dull honey-yellow towards the tip, distinctly compressed; — joints, in profile a little narrowed to the base; palpi piceous, not at all securiform, terminal joint less dilated at tip than tiiat of the preceding joint; thorax with a slight pearlaceous re - flection, rather narrower at tip than at base; lateral margin depressed,
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