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baca — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • berry noun A small, juicy, often sweet fruit that grows on a bush or vine, such as a blueberry or strawberry.
  • pearl noun A smooth, rounded gem formed inside the shell of certain oysters and mollusks, prized for jewelry.

Senses

baca is used for these senses in English:

  • berry A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
  • 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.

berry — full definition

  1. noun A small, juicy, often sweet fruit that grows on a bush or vine, such as a blueberry or strawberry.
  2. noun A coffee bean, before or during processing.
  3. verb To pick or gather berries.

pearl — full definition

  1. noun A smooth, rounded gem formed inside the shell of certain oysters and mollusks, prized for jewelry.
  2. verb Surfing slang: for the nose of a surfboard to dip underwater, usually causing a wipeout.

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