nacreous

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1. nacreous - Adjective

2. nacreous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Consisting of, or resembling, nacre; pearly.

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My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys. Vladimir Nabokov

Nacreous pearl light swam faintly about the hem of the lilac darkness; the edges of light and darkness were stitched upon the hills. Morning moved like a pearl-gray tide across the fields and up the hillflanks, flowing rapidly down into the soluble dark. Thomas Wolfe

an iridescent oil slick Source: Internet

nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl Source: Internet

a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster Source: Internet

When the transition to nacre secretion occurs, the brown pebble becomes covered with a nacreous coating. Source: Internet

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