Crossword Clue: Gem from an oyster
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Quick Answer List
- pearl (5 letters)
- layer (5 letters)
- shell (5 letters)
- beard (5 letters)
- drill (5 letters)
- otter (5 letters)
- plant (5 letters)
- plate (5 letters)
- slips (5 letters)
- peach (5 letters)
- amber (5 letters)
- balas (5 letters)
- beryl (5 letters)
- bezel (5 letters)
- cameo (5 letters)
- enter (5 letters)
- clear (5 letters)
- space (5 letters)
- shift (5 letters)
- power (5 letters)
Detailed Explanations
pearl (5 letters)
Definition:
- 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. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.
- n (figuratively) Something precious.
- n A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application.
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layer (5 letters)
Definition:
- n A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
- n An item of clothing worn under or over another.
- n A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
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shell (5 letters)
Definition:
- n A hard external covering of an animal.
- n The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- n (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
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beard (5 letters)
Definition:
- n Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
- n The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
- n The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
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drill (5 letters)
Definition:
- v (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
- v (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
- v (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
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otter (5 letters)
Definition:
- n An aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal in the subfamily Lutrinae of the family Mustelidae, which also includes weasels, polecats, badgers, and others.
- n (gay slang) A hairy man with a slender physique, in contrast with a bear, who is more thickset.
- n (obsolete) annatto (dye)
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plant (5 letters)
Definition:
- n (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
- n (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
- n (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
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plate (5 letters)
Definition:
- n A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
- n (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
- n The contents of such a dish.
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slips (5 letters)
Definition:
n (cricket) the area of the field covered by fielders in the slip positions; the slip fielders collectively
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peach (5 letters)
Definition:
- n A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
- n The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
- n (color) A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
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amber (5 letters)
Definition:
- n (obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
- n A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
- n A yellow-orange colour.
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balas (5 letters)
Definition:
n (archaic, now chiefly attributive) A type of rose-coloured spinel once thought to be a form of ruby.
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beryl (5 letters)
Definition:
- n (uncountable, mineralogy) A mineral of pegmatite deposits, often used as a gemstone.
- n (countable) An example (a stone) of the mineral beryl.
- n (uncountable) A dull blueish green colour.
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bezel (5 letters)
Definition:
- n The sloping edge or face on a cutting tool.
- n The oblique side or face of a cut gem; especially the upper faceted portion of a brilliant (diamond), which projects from its setting.
- n The rim and flange which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, such as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.
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cameo (5 letters)
Definition:
- n A piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief.
- n A single very brief appearance, especially by a prominent celebrity in a movie or song.
- v To appear in a cameo role.
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enter (5 letters)
Definition:
A key on computer keyboards and calculators used to confirm input or execute commands.
Match Types: Gaming
clear (5 letters)
Definition:
A calculator or computer key used to erase input or reset the display.
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space (5 letters)
Definition:
A key on keyboards used to insert a blank space between characters.
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shift (5 letters)
Definition:
A modifier key on keyboards used to type capital letters or alternate characters.
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power (5 letters)
Definition:
A button or key used to turn a device on or off, or to raise a number to an exponent on scientific calculators.
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