English Dictionary

pearl

IPA（発音記号）

/pɜːl/

名詞

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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-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.

日本語の意味

真珠：貝類の外套膜と殻の間で、異物の刺激により分泌される貝殻質が堆積して形成される、丸く光沢のある宝石状の物質。主にパールオイスターや淡水貝で見られ、装飾品として用いられる。

She found a single pearl inside the oyster and placed it carefully in her velvet box.

彼女は牡蠣の中から一つの真珠を見つけ、それを丁寧にビロードの箱に入れた。

意味（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-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.

意味（2）

(figuratively) Something precious.

I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl.

意味（3）

A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application.

意味（4）

Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.

意味（5）

A whitish speck or film on the eye.

Boast not of your eyes; it is feared you have Balaam's disease, a pearl in your eye, Mammon's prestriction.

意味（6）

A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.

意味（7）

A light-colored tern.

意味（8）

One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.

意味（9）

(uncountable, typography, printing, dated) The size of type between diamond and agate, standardized as 5-point.

意味（10）

A fringe or border.

意味（11）

(obsolete) A jewel or gem.

There is gold, and multitude of pearles: but a precious vessel the lips of knowledge.

意味（12）

(euphemistic, vulgar, slang) The clitoris.

My mouth and tongue finally find her pearl. Her clitoris.

pearls （ plural ）