pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera | tropical marine bivalve found chiefly off eastern Asia and Pacific coast of North America and Central America, a major source of pearls |
pearlfish pearl-fish | found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds |
pearl fishery | a fishery where they fish for pearl oysters |
bone ivory pearl off-white | a shade of white the color of bleached bones |
barley water | used to feed infants |
barley-sugar barley candy | a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar |
pearl hominy | hominy prepared by milling to pellets of medium size |
barley barleycorn | a grain of barley |
pearl barley | barley ground into small round pellets |
Pearl Harbor | a harbor on Oahu to the west of Honolulu, location of a United States naval base that was attacked by the Japanese on Dec |
nacreous cloud mother-of-pearl cloud | a luminous iridescent cloud at a high altitude that may be seen when the sun is a few degrees below the horizon |
Pearl River | a river in Mississippi that flows southward to the Gulf of Mexico |
Zhu Jiang Canton River Chu Kiang Pearl River | a river in southeast China that flows into the South China Sea |
pearl diver pearler | a diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls |
Bailey Pearl Bailey Pearl Mae Bailey | United States singer (-) |
Buck Pearl Buck Pearl Sydenstricker Buck | United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (-) |
pearlwort pearlweed pearl-weed | any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls |
barley | cultivated since prehistoric times, grown for forage and grain |
common barley Hordeum vulgare | grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages |
barley grass wall barley Hordeum murinum | European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows |
squirreltail barley foxtail barley squirreltail grass Hordeum jubatum | barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns, North America and northeastern Asia |
little barley Hordeum pusillum | annual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America |
pearl millet bulrush millet cattail millet Pennisetum glaucum Pennisetum Americanum | tall grass having cattail like spikes, grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage, sometimes used in making beer |
pearl | a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster, much valued as a jewel |
seed pearl | a small imperfect pearl |
drop bead pearl | a shape that is spherical and small, he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops, beads of sweat on his forehead |
mother-of-pearl nacre | the iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell |
pearl ash | an impure form of potassium carbonate |
pearl sago | sago ground into small round grains |
pearl | gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean |
pearl grey pearl gray | of a grey with a pearly tinge |