to cast pearls before swine
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English Definitions
pear
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sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties
pear
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Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties
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a disease blackening the leaves of pear and apple trees
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erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries
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erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries
pear tree
N
Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties
pear-shaped
having a round shape tapered at one end
pear-shaped
(of sounds) full and rich
pearl
N
a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel
pearl
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a shade of white the color of bleached bones
pearl
N
a shape that is spherical and small
pearl
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gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean
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an impure form of potassium carbonate
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United States singer (1918-1990)
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barley ground into small round pellets
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United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)
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a diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls
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a fishery where they fish for pearl oysters
of a grey with a pearly tinge
of a grey with a pearly tinge
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a harbor on Oahu to the west of Honolulu; location of a United States naval base that was attacked by the Japanese on 7 Dec 1941
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hominy prepared by milling to pellets of medium size
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United States singer (1918-1990)
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tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer
pearl oyster
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tropical marine bivalve found chiefly off eastern Asia and Pacific coast of North America and Central America; a major source of pearls
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a river in southeast China that flows into the South China Sea
Pearl River
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a river in Mississippi that flows southward to the Gulf of Mexico
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sago ground into small round grains
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United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)
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found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds
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any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls
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a diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls
having a play of lustrous rainbow colors
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found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds
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a lamellar mixture of cementite and ferrite formed during the cooling of austenite; a constituent of steel and cast iron
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any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls
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any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls
pearly
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informal terms for a human `tooth'
pearly
of a white the color of pearls
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an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts
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cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions
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the pearly lining of the dark shells is a source of mother-of-pearl
of a white the color of pearls
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any of several varieties of apples with red skins
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the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between variables that are linearly related
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United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)
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