English Explanatory Dictionary

cave pearl

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of speleothem, formed as calcite crystallizes on a nucleus such as a grain of sand, in much the same way that a biological pearl forms within a mollusc.

Word forms

cave pearl cave pearls
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