Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mother of pearl
c.1500, translating Medieval Latin mater perlarum, with the first element perhaps connected in popular imagination with obsolete mother (n.2) "dregs." Compare Italian madreperla, French mère-perle, Dutch parelmoer, German Perlmutter, Danish perlemor.
Wikipedia
Mother of Pearl (novel)
See Nacre for material produced by mollusks.
'Mother of Pearl ' (1999) is a novel by Melinda Haynes, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection, June 1999. The audio version is performed by Nana Visitor.
Mother of pearl (disambiguation)
Mother of pearl is a common name for Nacre. It can also refer to:
- Mother of Pearl (novel), a 1999 novel by Melinda Haynes
- Mother-of-pearl cloud, another name for a polar stratospheric cloud
- Common name of the Pleuroptya ruralis moth
- Mother of pearl flower, common name of Catasetum pileatum
- Common name for butterflies of the genus Protogoniomorpha
- Mother-of-Pearl carving in Bethlehem
Usage examples of "mother of pearl".
Ferdinand Feghoot, the famous interplanetary explorer, had arrived at Planet Pearl to pay his respects to its queen, the renowned Mother of Pearl.