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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 moth·er-of-pearl /ˌmʌðərə(v)ˈpɚ/
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Moth·er-of-pearl n. Zool. The hard, iridescent, pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 mother-of-pearl
      n : the iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell [syn: nacre]