Translation for "madreperla" to english

Madreperla

noun

• pearl
• pearl oyster
• mother-of-pearl

Translation examples

pearl noun

En las aguas territoriales del país existen numerosos arrecifes de coral ricos en madreperlas y en recursos pesqueros.
The country's territorial waters count numerous coral reefs rich in pearl oysters and fishery resources. Climate

Igualmente, en el informe se señala que "desde 2000, han cerrado un total de 28 hoteles, 240 carpinterías que trabajaban la madera de olivo y talleres especializados en madreperla, y 50 restaurantes".
Moreover, the report states that "since 2000, a total of 28 hotels, 240 olive wood and mother-of-pearl workshops, and 50 restaurants have closed".

Una caja de madreperla. Incrustada. Conteniendo un abanico.
One mother-of-pearl box, inlaid, containing a fan.

Encontré un botón de madreperla.
I found a mother-of-pearl button.

Mira, es madreperla.
Look, it's mother-of-pearl.

Hasta las cucharas de madreperla.
You even have the mother of pearl spoons.

¿Puede identificar esta cajita de madreperla?
Can you identify this? mother-of-Pearl box?

Era de esmeraldas y madreperla.
It was emeralds and mother-of-pearl.

Edmund, abre la caja de madreperla de la mesa, y coge la navaja de madreperla.
Edmund, open the mother-of-pearl box on the table, and take out the mother-of-pearl penknife.

Un marcalibros de madreperla.
A mother of pearl bookmark.

Una bandejita de madreperla;
A small tray of mother-of-pearl;

—Madreperla —dijo Sieben—.
'Mother-of-pearl,' he said.

El cielo había cobrado un color madreperla.
THE SKY WAS mother-of-pearl.

Los tejados estaban revestidos de madreperla.
The roofs were tiled with mother-of-pearl.

Contenía seis botones de madreperla.
In it were six mother-of-pearl buttons.

Estaba tallado en ébano y tenía incrustaciones de madreperla.
It was carved from ebony, and inlaid with mother-of-pearl.

—Es de color diáfano, parecido al de la madreperla.
It has a diaphanous, almost mother-of-pearl tint,

Tenía el mango de madreperla con incrustaciones de diamantes falsos.
The handle was mother-of-pearl studded with rhinestones.

Un trocito de madreperla tallado como un pez…
A broken sliver of mother-of-pearl carved in the semblance of a fish…

Había uñas en su interior, hechas de madreperla.
Inside were fingernails. They were fashioned of mother-of-pearl.

pearl oyster noun

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.
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.

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;
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;

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;
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.