nacreous

How To Use nacreous In A Sentence

• Recycled glass tiles emit a nacreous sheen that changes throughout the day.
• There are other ways you can “get nacreous,” however, and thereby jump start the creative process and become the world-famous writer you've always wanted to be. Writer's Block? Get Nacreous!
• The shell of Microdoma conicum bears an inner nacreous layer and their shell layers resemble those of modern trochoids.
• She looked like a medical school model made of glass; or more correctly, like a human diatom, translucent and nacreous. DEAD LINES
• She looked like a medical school model made of glass; or more correctly, like a human diatom, translucent and nacreous. DEAD LINES
• They suggested that this species is similar in microstructure to modern unionid bivalves, which are externally prismatic and internally nacreous.
• The dorsal ligament groove is overlain dorsally and flanked laterally by the nacreous middle shell layer.
• If these are carefully sectioned there may usually be found at the center the remains of certain cestode larvæ whose presence in the oyster caused it to deposit the nacreous layers that make up the pearl. Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
• Nacreous and Noctilucent clouds form not in the part of the atmosphere in which we live, but much higher up, in the stratosphere and mesosphere.
• The distressed surfaces, with their flinty earth tones, cobalt blues and nacreous whites, hold light like rough alabaster.