pearl

     

A pearl is a hard object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk, usually a conch. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is made up of calcium carbonate in minute crystalline form, which has been deposited in concentric layers.

Trivia about pearl

  • Some 19th century papier mache furniture was painted & then inlaid with mother-of-this
  • In 1934, a giant clam had yielded one of these gems with a diameter of 5 1/2 inches, weighing over 14 pounds
  • The Pinctada maxima, or silver-lip oyster, is the largest oyster capable of cultivating one of these
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a gemstone.) The product of a living organism, it's the birthstone for the month of June
  • Janis Joplin's nickname
  • The color of this gem ranges from black to white, depending on the mollusk & it's environment
  • You're so sagacious that every phrase you utter is one of these proverbial gems "of wisdom"
  • The "Roman" type of this mollusk gem is a glass bead filled with wax
  • Mother of this! It's a type of handle a revolver can have
  • You'll always looked "cultured" in the cultured type of this June birthstone
  • Bahrain is known as this "of the Arabian Gulf", although cultured ones are banned in the market of the same name
  • Nacre is mother-of-this
  • It's a nacreous concretion formed around a foreign body, like a grain of sand
  • This gem for June is the only birthstone that comes from an animal
  • Wisdom gem (5)
  • Shades of white include oyster & this oyster gem
  • Manila has been called this gem "Of The Orient", & the gem appears on the city's seal
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew at the Buckhorn Museum in San Antonio, Texas) It's the fancy type of handle on this revolver & on the gun used by Jesse James' killer
  • 1-word title of the 1971 Janis Joplin album that contained the No. 1 hit "Me and Bobby McGee"
  • A stunning pink type of this gem is sometimes harvested from the queen conch
  • In Matthew the value of entering the Kingdom of Heaven is likened to this gem
  • As being of great price purchased with all she had, Hester Prynne named her child this
  • In a 1947 novelette by John Steinbeck, a diver named Kino finds the valuable title object to pay his child's doctor bill
  • Janis Joplin's second Top 10 album, this gem contained the hit "Me And Bobby McGee"
  • Mother-of-this! It's June's stone, along with moonstone & alexandrite
  • Hester Prynne named her infant this, "as being of great price"
  • When a tiny parasite enters an oyster's shell, mantle cells cover it with nacre until this is formed
  • The name of this gem precedes both a marble-sized onion & a type of barley

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