How To Use Nacreous In A Sentence
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Recycled glass tiles emit a nacreous sheen that changes throughout the day.
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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!
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The shell of Microdoma conicum bears an inner nacreous layer and their shell layers resemble those of modern trochoids.
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She looked like a medical school model made of glass; or more correctly, like a human diatom, translucent and nacreous.
DEAD LINES
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She looked like a medical school model made of glass; or more correctly, like a human diatom, translucent and nacreous.
DEAD LINES
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They suggested that this species is similar in microstructure to modern unionid bivalves, which are externally prismatic and internally nacreous.
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The dorsal ligament groove is overlain dorsally and flanked laterally by the nacreous middle shell layer.
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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
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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.
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The distressed surfaces, with their flinty earth tones, cobalt blues and nacreous whites, hold light like rough alabaster.
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As if to correct the one or the other, he thrust his tongue into the nacreous coils of her ear, smothering all the while her breasts with his hands, lest their rocking motion somehow interfere with the process of correction.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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Without appearing to suggest anything beyond a trifling blemish in this story, replete as it is with edifying illustrations of the frailties of human nature, it would be well to remember that the helmet shell (CASSIS FLAMMEA) is not nacreous and could not therefore produce a true pearl, but merely g porcellaneous concretion, which, however, might possess a most attractive tint, possibly pale salmon or orange.
Tropic Days
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[MYTILUS INCRASSATUS] Shell nacreous, thick, somewhat inflated, marked with concentric lines of growth; anterior margin arched accuminate; posterior rounded, somewhat dilated; umbones acute.
Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
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Interestingly, not all "pearls" are made of nacre, that combination of aragonite (calcium carbonate and conchiolin that is secreted from a mollusk and layered together to form what gemologists call a "nacreous" pearl.
Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
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The lowest of these clouds is nacreous, which normally forms between 10 and 20 miles above the Earth (compared with ice cloud cirrus at around 6 miles).
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There's no sham there; no deception -- except the iridescence, which is, as you doubtless know, an optical illusion attributable to the intervention of rays of light reflected from microscopic corrugations of the nacreous surface.
Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana
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FLAMMEA) is not nacreous and could not therefore produce a true pearl, but merely g porcellaneous concretion, which, however, might possess a most attractive tint, possibly pale salmon or orange.
Tropic Days
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A solitary spot-light illuminates the stage, bathing the floorboards in a nacreous glow.
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In places the shale had flaked away giving the tower a mottled appearance; black nacreous scales littered the base of the walls and gleamed among the grasses.
She Closed Her Eyes
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They are covered with a smooth, safe, nacreous layer to let them slip, pearllike, from our souls without real pain.
AMERICAN GODS
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The dorsal ligament groove is overlain dorsally and flanked laterally by the nacreous middle shell layer.
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Her legs were encased in a sickly green, nacreous material that was solid from the knees down, breaking apart into a delicate lace patterning over her thighs and waist.
Crimson Wind
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The parking lot is full, the grass is covered with cars, there are even cars out on the street, everywhere there are cars, and in each car are people sheened with sweat, going nacreous as onions fried in butter; I can see through their clammy melting skin to the dry dusty dust of their bones.
Wine Poetry
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Like nacreous clouds, these usually form slightly above the troposphere, in the dry and ice-free stratosphere.
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That same wind sundered the clouds to reveal a swollen, pocked moon, and a shaft of nacreous moonglow doused the ground before my feet.
Shadow Walker
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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.
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I am worth more, for it is I who bring them forth, sing them forth - luminous nacreous spheres tumbling forth, scattering on the ground.
Valentines, part the first
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The distressed surfaces, with their flinty earth tones, cobalt blues and nacreous whites, hold light like rough alabaster.
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Throughout the rain of that evening, she saw his body glowing, pale, nacreous under green water.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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If, despite having your pencils lined up and a fresh piece of paper in your typewriter, or a cool white computer screen in front of you, you find yourself unable to write, it may be because you're not nacreous enough.
Writer's Block? Get Nacreous!
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Unofficial Neal Asher drinking game: take a shot whenever he uses the words "nacreous" or "actinic.
REVIEW: Prador Moon by Neal Asher
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nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl