珍珠 — meaning in English

English meaning

• brilliant adj Shining very brightly.
• gem noun A precious or semi-precious stone, especially one cut and polished for jewelry.
• pall noun A heavy cloth draped over a coffin or tomb.
• pearl noun A smooth, rounded gem formed inside the shell of certain oysters and mollusks, prized for jewelry.

Senses

珍珠 is used for these senses in English:

• brilliant (uncountable, printing, dated) The size of type between excelsior and diamond, standardized as 4-point.
• gem (figuratively) Any precious or highly valued thing or person.
• pall (heraldic charge) A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y, sometimes charged with crosses.
• pearl (literally) 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.

brilliant — full definition

1. adj Shining very brightly.
2. adj Exceptionally intelligent, skilled, or impressive.
3. noun A diamond or other gemstone cut with many facets to maximize its sparkle.

gem — full definition

1. noun A precious or semi-precious stone, especially one cut and polished for jewelry.
2. noun Something or someone of exceptional quality or value.
3. noun A software package or library for the Ruby programming language.

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