A widely grown type of millet, Pennisetum glaucum.

A tiny, often irregular pearl. / Some minute pearls worked into a bedding.

plural of pearl diver

A pearl that has an irregular shape

Small edible balls made primarily from tapioca starch; used in bubble tea.

Briza media, a variety of grass. / Oldenlandia corymbosa; snake tongue grass, Old World diamond-flower / Micranthemum micranthemoides (syn. Hemianthus micranthemoides)

(biology) A small, lustrous, pearl-like food body produced from the epidermis of leaves, petioles and shoots of certain plants, sought after by various arthropods and ants.

plural of pearl body

A kind of speleothem, formed as calcite crystallizes on a nucleus such as a grain of sand, in much the same way that a biological pearl forms within a mollusc.

(idiomatic, derogatory) Prim, prudish, or easily offended.