Usually means: Iridescent, pearl-like material in shells.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word nacreous:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. nacreous: Merriam-Webster
  2. nacreous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nacreous: Collins English Dictionary
  4. nacreous: Vocabulary.com
  5. nacreous: Wordnik
  6. nacreous: Wiktionary
  7. nacreous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. nacreous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. nacreous: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. nacreous: Dictionary.com
  11. Nacreous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Nacreous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. nacreous: Rhymezone
  14. Nacreous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. nacreous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. nacreous: FreeDictionary.org
  17. nacreous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. nacreous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. nacreous: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nacreous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. nacreous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Nacreous: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. nacreous: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nacreous: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nacreous)

adjective:  Of, or resembling nacre (mother of pearl).
adjective:  Exhibiting lustrous or rainbow-like colors.

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