Usually means: Iridescent lining inside mollusk shells.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. mother of pearl: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mother-of-pearl: Merriam-Webster
  3. mother-of-pearl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mother-of-pearl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mother-of-pearl, mother-of-pearl: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mother-of-pearl: Vocabulary.com
  7. mother-of-pearl: Wordnik
  8. mother-of-pearl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mother-of-pearl: Wiktionary
  10. mother-of-pearl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mother-of-pearl: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mother-of-pearl, mother of pearl: Dictionary.com
  13. mother of pearl: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mother-of-pearl: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mother-of-Pearl, Mother of Pearl (Roxy Music song), Mother of Pearl (novel), Mother-of-pearl, Mother of pearl (disambiguation), Mother of pearl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mother-of-pearl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mother-of-pearl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mother-of-pearl: Rhymezone
  19. Mother-of-pearl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. Mother of Pearl: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. mother-of-pearl: FreeDictionary.org
  22. mother-of-pearl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. mother-of-pearl: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mother-of-pearl: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mother of pearl, mother-of-pearl: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mother of Pearl: Botanical Name listing of Plants

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mother of pearl: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Mother of pearl: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Mother of pearl)

noun:  Alternative form of mother-of-pearl [The hard pearly inner layer of certain mollusk shells; nacre.]

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