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nacreous

/ney-kree-uhs/US // ˈneɪ kri əs //UK // (ˈneɪkrɪəs) //

无色的,无光泽的,无色,无光泽

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to nacre.
    • : resembling nacre; lustrous; pearly: a nacreous luster;a nacreous sky.

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Examples

  • It is seldom as much as half an inch in length, and has a nacreous interior.

  • It is an essentially beautiful and satisfying contribution to modern painting, this nacreous cubism of Marie Laurencin.

  • Two kinds of shell-substance are at once distinguishable in an oyster-shell, an outer brown, and an inner pearly or nacreous.

  • The interior is nacreous, and of a greenish colour, with a white patch round the columella.

  • Shell not nacreous, without umbilicus, with prominent spire and polished surface.