Nacre

Word NACRE
Character 5
Hyphenation ‖Na cré na cre
Pronunciations /ˈneɪkə/

Definitions and meanings of "Nacre"

What do we mean by nacre?

Having an iridescence resembling that of mother-of-pearl; nacreous: a French word applied in English to decorative objects: as, nacré porcelain.

Mother-of-pearl. noun

A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl. noun

Having the peculiar iridescence of nacre, or mother-of-pearl, or an iridescence resembling it. adjective

The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell noun

A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl.

A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Nacre

The word "nacre" in example sentences

The animal then secretes a calcium substance called nacre to protect itself. ❋ Boutique Week (2011)

The particle is an irritant, which causes the oyster to produce a lacquer-like substance called nacre. ❋ Victoria Osteen (2011)

Three decades earlier, Kokichi Mikimoto, the son of a noodle maker in Toba, Japan, had perfected a method to culture pearls, the process by which a bead or piece of mantle tissue is implanted inside the fleshy part of a mollusk, forcing the creature to secrete an iridescent substance called nacre that forms a pearl. ❋ By VICTORIA GOMELSKY (2010)

The inside shells of oysters and other shell-forming mollusks are covered with a shiny, lustrous substance called nacre, or mother-of-pearl.

Natural pearls are born quite by chance when the oyster can’t get rid of some particle inside and coats it with layer upon layer of a smooth, hard substance called nacre. ❋ V.C. Andrews (2002)

Links of London bracelet the pearls are formed when an irritant, such as a small parasite or a fish lodges in the flesh of an oyster, mussel, or clam; links the protective substance produced by the mollusk is called "nacre". ❋ Unknown (2010)

The oyster secretes the nacre over that irritant as a way of protecting itself. ❋ Victoria Osteen (2011)

Those smooth layers of nacre coat the sand granule, eventually sealing off the irritation and forming a gorgeous pearl. ❋ Victoria Osteen (2011)

Just like that oyster covers that irritant with nacre, so we must cover offenses with love and grace in order to protect our hearts from being damaged. ❋ Victoria Osteen (2011)

If an oyster gets an irritating object—a rock or your brother-in-law Lamar Gene—trapped within its mollusk mantle folds, it secretes nacre around it to make its existence more bearable. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

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