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 Translation for 'pearly' from English to French
ADJ   pearly | pearlier | pearliest
NOUN   pearly | pearlies
SYNO chopper | pearly | pearly-white
nacré {adj}pearly [colour]
nacrer qc.to give a pearly gloss to sth.
orn.T
conure {f} perlée [Pyrrhura lepida]
pearly conure
orn.T
conure {f} perlée [Pyrrhura lepida]
pearly parakeet
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Usage Examples English
  • We enter the pearly gates to an all-black heaven, with winged angels sitting on clouds.
  • The pearly white eggs are cylindrical (0.8 mm long and 0.14 mm long) of pearly with a very thin corion.
  • The pearly gates are a conceptual entry to Heaven in Christian religions.
  • It is a larval host to the northern pearly eye.
  • "Epioblasma arcaeformis", the sugarspoon or arc-form pearly mussel, was a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

  • "Diplodon" is a genus of freshwater pearly mussel, an aquatic bivalve in the Hyriidae family.
  • The underside of the hindwings is decorated with large pearly nacreous spots and it is crossed by a postdiscal row of black eyespots with pearly pupils.
  • The hindwings are pearly white in males and pearly light grey in females, with a dark grey marginal band that is thin in males (but wider along the veins) and wider in females.
  • "Scolopsis margaritifera", commonly known as pearly monocle bream, is a fish native to the western Pacific Ocean.
  • The forewings are yellowish fawn, crossed by three irregular bands of semihyaline pearly-white spots.

  • The finspot wrasse ("Xenojulis margaritaceus"), also known as the pinkspeckled wrasse, pearly rainbowfish or pearly weed wrasse, is a species of wrasse native to the western Pacific Ocean.
  • In the 1880s, a man by the name of Henry Croft who had long admired the costermonger's way of life as well as their showiness and panache, smothered his worn out suit and accessories with pearly buttons arranged in geometric patterns.
  • "Enodia portlandia", the southern pearly eye, Portland pearlyeye or just pearly eye, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.
  • The upperside of the wings is pearly white, with black marks around the tips of the forewings.
  • "Alvania simulans" has a small (1.5-2mm) shell that is pearly white in color, and partially translucent.

  • Colour : white, with a pearly lustre.
  • and is also commonly known as the blackpearl moray, pearly moray, pearly reef-eel, or the trunk-eyed moray.
  • Croft started to wear his pearly suit to raise money for charity in the late 1870s.
  • In 2009 two collections were produced: "Leisure Pursuits", which had plimsolls, ping pongs, and telephones all turned into jewellery; later on in the year, "Button Up" which was inspired by the Pearly Kings and Queens of East London, where Tatty Devine are based.
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