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What does nacreous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of, or resembling nacre (mother of pearl).
  2. Exhibiting lustrous or rainbow-like colors.
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It is seldom as much as half an inch in length, and has a nacreous interior.
The lowest of these clouds is nacreous, which normally forms between 10 and 20 miles above the Earth.
The distressed surfaces, with their flinty earth tones, cobalt blues and nacreous whites, hold light like rough alabaster.
The implanted graft grows to form a pearl-sac around the nucleus, enveloping it with a thin layer of a secreted nacreous material.
Recycled glass tiles emit a nacreous sheen that changes throughout the day.
The shell of Microdoma conicum bears an inner nacreous layer and their shell layers resemble those of modern trochoids.

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