Synonyms for pearl
Definitions
- n. 1
A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-o
- n. 2
A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-o
Forms
- Plural
- pearls → ivories, off-whites, bones, beads…
Example sentences
- bone How can you get a chicken bone out of your throat?
- ivory At his side, he carried an ivory and silver sword.
- bead If I am killed you are to have my pearl bead ring.
- gem It's not as if just anybody can write a literary gem.
- jewel On examination the jewel proved to be an imitation.
By length
- 3 letters
- gem1
- 4 letters
- drop1, bone1, bead1
- 5 letters
- ivory3, jewel2
- 9 letters
- margarite
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ivory3 = 3 syllables).