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Pearl :: Pearl (n.) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed

Mantled :: Mantled (imp. & p. p.) of Mantl.

Tunic :: Tunic (n.) See Mantle, n., 3 (a)..

Ivy-mantled :: Ivy-mantled (a.) Covered with ivy.

Cordon :: Cordon (n.) A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state..

Dismantle :: Dismantle (v. t.) To disable; to render useless.

Shell :: Shell (n.) The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like..

Achlamydate :: Achlamydate (a.) Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods.

Mantelet :: Mantelet (n.) A short cloak or mantle worn by women.

Cirrus :: Cirrus (n.) A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri..

Inclusa :: Inclusa (n. pl.) A tribe of bivalve mollusks, characterized by the closed state of the mantle which envelops the body. The ship borer (Teredo navalis) is an example..

Mantle :: Mantle (v. i.) To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc..

Manteau :: Manteau (n.) A woman's cloak or mantle.

Mantle :: Mantle (n.) Any free, outer membrane..

Slug :: Slug (n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails..

Pallium :: Pallium (n.) The mantle of a bivalve. See Mantle.

Lady''s Mantle :: Lady's mantle () A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes..

Tabard :: Tabard (n.) A sort of tunic or mantle formerly worn for protection from the weather. When worn over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds..

Chlamydate :: Chlamydate (a.) Having a mantle; -- applied to certain gastropods.

Emmantle :: Emmantle (v. t.) To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection..

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