Dictionary Entry
pearl
pearl is a 5-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, transitive verb, adjective, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A fringe or border. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 20 senses
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- 1noun
A fringe or border.
- 2transitive verb
To fringe; to border.
- 3noun
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. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and compare in value with the precious stones.
- 4noun
Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.
- 5noun
Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
- 6noun
A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
- 7noun
A light-colored tern.
- 8noun
One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
- 9noun
A whitish speck or film on the eye.
- 10noun
A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.
- 11noun
A size of type, between agate and diamond.
- 12adjective
Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.
- 13transitive verb
To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.
- 14transitive verb
To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
- 15intransitive verb
To resemble pearl or pearls.
- 16intransitive verb
To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.
- 17noun
a shade of white the color of bleached bones
- 18noun
a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel
- 19noun
a shape that is spherical and small
"he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"
"beads of sweat on his forehead"
- 20verb
gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean
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