Usually means: Iridescent lining of mollusk shells.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. mother-of-pearl: Merriam-Webster
  2. mother-of-pearl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mother-of-pearl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mother-of-pearl, mother-of-pearl: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mother-of-pearl: Vocabulary.com
  6. mother-of-pearl: Wordnik
  7. mother-of-pearl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mother-of-pearl: Wiktionary
  9. mother-of-pearl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mother-of-pearl: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. mother-of-pearl: Dictionary.com
  12. mother-of-pearl: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Mother-of-Pearl, Mother-of-pearl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Mother-of-pearl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. mother-of-pearl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. mother-of-pearl: Rhymezone
  17. Mother-of-pearl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. mother-of-pearl: FreeDictionary.org
  19. mother-of-pearl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. mother-of-pearl: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mother-of-pearl: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mother-of-pearl: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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noun:  The hard pearly inner layer of certain mollusk shells; nacre.
noun:  A butterfly of the genus Salamis.
adjective:  Made from or looking like mother-of-pearl; iridescent or pearly.

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