pearl
noun
[ pəːl ]
• a hard, lustrous spherical mass, typically white or bluish-grey, formed within the shell of a pearl oyster or other bivalve mollusc and highly prized as a gem.
• "a linen garment decorated with pearls"
• a person or thing of great rarity and worth.
• "these things are pearls amidst the everyday"
pearl
verb
• form drops resembling pearls.
• "raindrops pearled on water-soaked windowpanes"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French perle, perhaps based on Latin perna ‘leg’, extended to denote a leg-of-mutton-shaped bivalve.
pearl
noun
• another term for picot.
