单词 | nacred |
释义 | nacredadj. Covered with or surrounded by nacre; having the pearly lustre of nacre. ΚΠ 1755 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 82/1 This shell..is finely nakered within. 1845 W. Macgillivray Conchol. Text-bk. 224 Nacred, pearly, perlaceous. 1893 Amer. Naturalist 27 959 Unio tuberculatus... Both the purple-nacred and white-nacred varieties were found. 1920 Amer. Midland Naturalist 6 213 The pink nacred shells are confined to southern Missouri. 1980 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 29 Feb. 21 Whitely, they sleep between the nacred pools like princes and princesses from a saga. 1995 Jrnl. Zool. 236 223 The margin of the right valve is not nacred. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1755 |
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