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• Pearl stingray — Conservation status Data Deficient ( …   Wikipedia

• PEARL, DANIEL — (1963–2002), U.S. journalist. Born in Princeton, N.J., Pearl grew up in Encino, Calif., where his father was a professor at the University of California in Los Angeles. Pearl, who had dual American Israeli citizenship, earned a bachelor s degree… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• pearl|wort — «PURL WURT», noun. any one of a group of small matted or tufted herbs with threadlike or awl shaped leaves and minute flowers …   Useful english dictionary

• Pearl — For other uses, see Pearl (disambiguation). Pearl Pearls General Category Mineral Chemical formula Ca …   Wikipedia

• pearl — pearl1 pearler, n. pearlish, adj. pearllike, adj. /perrl/, n. 1. a smooth, rounded bead formed within the shells of certain mollusks and composed of the mineral aragonite or calcite in a matrix, deposited in concentric layers as a protective… …   Universalium

• Pearl — /perrl/, n. 1. a town in central Mississippi. 20,778. 2. a female given name. * * * I Concretion formed by a mollusk and consisting of the same material (called nacre, or mother of pearl) as the mollusk s shell. Long treasured as gemstones,… …   Universalium

• Pearl Brewing Company — Infobox Brewery name = Pearl Brewing Company caption = location = Beer: Ft. Worth, Texas Brewery: San Antonio, Texas owner = Beer: Pabst Brewing Company Brewery: Silver Ventures, Inc. opened = 1883 production = active beers = brewbox… …   Wikipedia

• pearl — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a (often attrib.) a usu. white or bluish grey hard mass formed within the shell of a pearl oyster or other bivalve mollusc, highly prized as a gem for its lustre (pearl necklace). b an imitation of this. c (in pl.) a necklace of… …   Useful english dictionary

• Pearl Harbor — 1. a harbor near Honolulu, on S Oahu, in Hawaii: surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base and other military installations December 7, 1941. 2. any significant or crippling defeat, betrayal, loss, etc., that comes unexpectedly. * * * Inlet …   Universalium

• pearl — I. /pɜl / (say perl) noun 1. a hard, smooth, often highly lustrous concretion, a mass of nacre, white or variously coloured, and rounded, pear shaped, or irregular (baroque) in form, secreted as a morbid product within the shell of various… …  

• Pearl-breasted Swallow — Taxobox name = Pearl breasted Swallow status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 image width = 250px regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Passeriformes familia = Hirundinidae genus = Hirundo species = H. dimidiata binomial =… …   Wikipedia