Translation for "pearl oyster" to spanish

Pearl oyster

noun

• madreperla

Translation examples

madreperla noun

Rolf told me earlier that Alex owned one of the pearl oyster-shell pendants from the Timor Sea, which had been traded across Australia from time immemorial.
Rolf me había contado antes que Alex era el propietario de uno de los pendientes de madreperla del mar de Timor que se comerciaban en Australia desde tiempos inmemoriales.

explosions occur in the sea-bed (O yes! they have volcanoes and all that kind of nuisance quite as badly as we have) and blow up somebody’s prize flock of goldfish, or prize bed of anemones, or one and only pearl-oyster, or famous rock and coral garden;
en el lecho marino se producen explosiones (¡oh, sí, allí hay volcanes y toda esa clase de trastornos que tenemos nosotros, y exactamente tan malos como los nuestros!) y los bancos de peces de colores, o los lechos de anémonas, o una sola y única madreperla, o los famosos jardines de roca y coral despiertan la codicia de alguien;

But it was worth their toil. The fishing-ground was sharply defined, and as soon as they were over its border and among the boobies they found that it possessed at least two levels, a turmoil of squids pursuing pelagic crabs and the free-swimming larvae of various forms of marine life that neither could identify, though they were fairly confident of the pearl oyster, and two or three fathoms below these, clearly to be seen, particularly under the shade of the boat, swam schools of fishes, crossing and recrossing, all of the same mackerel-shaped kind, all flashing as they turned, and all feeding upon a host of fry so numerous that they made a globular haze in the clear green water.
Valió la pena el esfuerzo que hicieron. El banco de peces estaba bien definido, y tan pronto como rebasaron el límite y se encontraron entre los alcatraces vieron que tenía al menos dos niveles. En uno había un montón de calamares persiguiendo cangrejos y larvas de varias especies marinas que no pudieron identificar, aunque estaban casi seguros de que eran de madreperlas;