"cave pearl" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: cave pearls [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} cave pearl (plural cave pearls)
  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. Wikipedia link: cave pearl Translations (speleothem): luolahelmi (Finnish), perla de caverna [feminine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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