жемчу́жина — meaning in English

English meaning

• gem noun A precious or semi-precious stone, especially one cut and polished for jewelry.
• pearl noun A smooth, rounded gem formed inside the shell of certain oysters and mollusks, prized for jewelry.

Senses

жемчу́жина is used for these senses in English:

• gem (figuratively) Any precious or highly valued thing or person.
• 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.
• pearl (figuratively) Something precious.

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.

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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