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pearl

A dense spherical calcareous concretion, usually white or light-colored, consisting of occasional layers of conchiolin and predominant nacrous layers of aragonite (or rarely calcite); deposited concentrically about a foreign particle within or beneath the mantle of various marine and freshwater mollusks; occurs either free from or attached to the shell.

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