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What (who) is nacré - definition

ORGANIC-INORGANIC COMPOSITE MATERIAL PRODUCED BY SOME MOLLUSCS
Mother of pearl; Mother-of-pearl; Mother-of-Pearl; Mother of Pearl; Nachre; The Mother of Pearl Inlay; Nacreous; Artificial nacre; Pearlshell; Pearl shell
  • Electron microscopy image of a fractured surface of nacre
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  • Nacreous shell worked into a decorative object
  • Schematic of the microscopic structure of nacre layers
  • Nacre bracelet
  • The iridescent nacre inside a [[nautilus]] shell

Nacre         
Nacre ( , ), also known as mother of pearl, is an organicinorganic composite material produced by some molluscs as an inner shell layer; it is also the material of which pearls are composed. It is strong, resilient, and iridescent.
nacre         
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Mother-of-pearl.
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·add. ·adj Having the peculiar iridescence of nacre, or mother-of-pearl, or an iridescence resembling it; as, nacre ware.
II. Nacre ·noun A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl. [Written also nacker and naker.] ·see Pearl, and Mother-of-pearl.

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Nacre

Nacre ( NAY-kər, also NAK-rə), also known as mother of pearl, is an organic–inorganic composite material produced by some molluscs as an inner shell layer; it is also the material of which pearls are composed. It is strong, resilient, and iridescent.

Nacre is found in some of the most ancient lineages of bivalves, gastropods, and cephalopods. However, the inner layer in the great majority of mollusc shells is porcellaneous, not nacreous, and this usually results in a non-iridescent shine, or more rarely in non-nacreous iridescence such as flame structure as is found in conch pearls.

The outer layer of cultured pearls and the inside layer of pearl oyster and freshwater pearl mussel shells are made of nacre. Other mollusc families that have a nacreous inner shell layer include marine gastropods such as the Haliotidae, the Trochidae and the Turbinidae.