mabe
/ˈmɑːbi/ /ˈmɑːbeɪ/ /mɑːˈbeɪ/(also mobe)
noun
In full mabe pearl. A type of large, usually hemispherical cultured pearl, grown on the inside shell of an oyster rather than within the body, and often (because of its shape) mounted in jewellery.
- Originally produced in Japan, mabe pearls are now cultured throughout the Pacific Rim, principally grown in the wing oysters Pteria penguin and P. maxima..
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in The New York Times. From Japanese mabe the bivalve Pteria penguin, a pearl cultivated in the shell of this bivalve.
- lift off
- lift (or raise) someone's spirits
- lift pump
- lift shaft
- lig
- ligament
- ligamental
- ligamentary
- ligamentous
- ligand
- ligase
- ligate
- ligation
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- liger
- Ligeti, György Sándor
- ligger
- light
- light a fire under
- light a fire under someone
- light air
- light ale
- light and shade
- light at the end of the tunnel
- Light Blue