Though most modern vendors serve only the bigger 1 / 4 " pearls, they still use " pearl tea " as the name.

Wall's Christian faith has influenced some of the terminology of Perl, such as the name itself, a biblical reference to the " pearl of great price " ( Matthew 13: 46 ).

Instead, polar stratospheric clouds are given the name Nacreous based on their mother of pearl colorations and are sub-classified alpha-numerically based on chemical makeup rather than variations in physical appearance.

The species name namibiensis indicates its origins in coastal Namibia, meaning Sulfur pearl of Namibia.

Marguerite is the French form of a female given name ( English Margaret, Spanish Margarita ) which derives from the Greek Μαργαρίτης meaning " pearl ").

The osmeña pearl, contrarily to its name, is not a pearl, but a jewellery product derived from this part of the shell.

The city of Tapachula is capital of the Chiapas region of Soconusco with the nickname of the “ pearl of the Soconusco .” The name “ Tapachula ” comes from Nahuatl and means “ between the waters ” due to the area ’ s frequent flooding.

His birth name may have originated from newspaper descriptions of Queen Victoria's mourning clothes as " pearl gray ".

However, there are no German, French, Dutch or Belgian cookbooks that reference them in this period – by any name – nor are there any waffle recipes that reference the Liège waffle ’ s distinctive ingredients, brioche-based dough and pearl sugar.

Rottas made with pearl millet ( bajra ) or maize ( makka ) or jowar flour usually carry the name of the flour, as in " bajra roti " or " makke ki roti " ( or " bhakri " in marathi ).

According to Andrew McCrum, now of Appella brand name consultants, who was brought in to find a name by Saatchi and Saatchi Design ( contracted by TranSys ), Oyster was conceived and promoted because of the metaphorical implications of security and value in the component meanings of the hard bivalve shell and the concealed pearl, the association of London and the River Thames with oysters, and the well-known travel-related idiom " the world is your oyster ".

In this 1780 performance the actress for the first time appeared under the stage name Zhemchugova, " The Pearl ", ( zhemchug means " pearl " in Russian ).

These gates are each made of a single pearl, giving them the name of the " pearly gates ".

Its name means " Oyster Wharf " in Chinese, echoing its former reputation as a freshwater pearl fishery.

The name is derived from a Greek word meaning " pearl barley ".

To name a few, the Makhaniya Lassi, Mawa Kachori, Pyaaj Kachori, Hot & Spicy Mirchibada ( A preparation made with potato, onion, chilli and gramflour ), Dal Bati Churma, Panchkuta, Lapsi ( a special kind of dessert made with wheat, Jaggery, and ghee ), Kachar mircha curry ( made with chilli and kachar, a special type of vegetable grown in desert area ) and Kadhi ( made with gramflour, curd and chilli ) with Baajre ka sogra ( a sweet preparation of pearl millet and jaggery ).

Its warm climate, its mineral water springs, and its forests made Borjomi a favorite summer resort for the aristocracy, and gave it its popular name of “ the pearl of Caucasus .” In the 1860s, new hotels were built, and an administration for mineral waters was established.

Jemmy Button was paid for with a mother of pearl button, hence his name.

In Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, a king of Southern Han changed the name of Tai Po to Mei Chuen To ( 媚川都 ) and ordered an aggressive cultivation effort, which led to many fatalities amongst the pearl hunters.

The name kina is derived from Kuanua of the Tolai region, referring to a callable pearl shell used widely for trading in both the Coastal and

The grape was once a wild variety which was said to contain alcohol compounds which, in turn, allegedly would induce wild inebriation, hence its colloquial name Rabiatperle-rabid pearl.

Black pearl is an alternative name for Tahitian pearl.

The English word pearl comes from the French perle, originally from the Latin perna meaning leg, after the ham-or mutton leg-shaped bivalve.

An officer of the first grade wore a translucent red ball ( originally ruby ); second grade, solid red ball ( originally coral ); third grade, translucent blue ball ( originally sapphire ); fourth grade, solid blue ball ; fifth grade, translucent white ball ( originally crystal ); sixth grade, solid white ball ( originally mother of pearl ).

Ama are famous for pearl diving, but originally they dove for food like seaweed, shellfish, lobsters, octopus, and sea urchins — and oysters which sometimes have pearls.

* 珍珠奶茶 or 珍奶 for short ) (): " pearl milk tea ", or more commonly referred to as bubble tea by most English speakers and overseas Chinese speakers.

The region also includes the castle in Brzeg, built during the reign of the Piast dynasty — pearl of the Silesian Renaissance, the Franciscan monastery on top of Saint Anne Mountain, as well as the mediæval defence fortifications in Paczkow ( referred to as the Polish Carcassonne ).

Tahitian pearls, frequently referred to as black pearls, are highly valued because of their rarity ; the culturing process for them dictates a smaller volume output and they can never be mass produced because, in common with most sea pearls, the oyster can only be nucleated with one pearl at a time, while freshwater mussels are capable of multiple pearl implants.

In the absence of an official definition for the pearl from the black oyster, these pearls are usually referred to as " black pearls ".

The GIA and CIBJO now simply use the term ' pearl ' ( or, where appropriate, the more descriptive term ' non-nacreous pearl ') when referring to such items and, under Federal Trade Commission rules, various mollusc pearls may be referred to as ' pearls ', without qualification.

Another example is the conch pearl ( sometimes referred to simply as the ' pink pearl '), which is found very rarely growing between the mantle and the shell of the queen conch or pink conch, Strombus gigas, a large sea snail or marine gastropod from the Caribbean Sea.

Drop and pear shaped pearls are sometimes referred to as teardrop pearls and are most often seen in earrings, pendants, or as a center pearl in a necklace.

While most other necklaces are simply referred to by their physical measurement, pearl necklaces are named by how low they hang when worn around the neck.

Bahrain was referred to by the Greeks as " Tylos ", the centre of pearl trading, when Nearchus discovered it while serving under Alexander the Great.

Depending on the mature size and the purpose for which the onion is used, these may be referred to as pearl, boiler, or pickler onions.

Bahrain was referred to by the Greeks as Tylos, the centre of pearl trading, when Nearchus came to discover it serving under Alexander the Great.

The chapel, often referred to as the pearl of Italian Renaissance north of the Alps, housed the graves of King Sigismund Augustus of Poland and Anna Jagiellonka.

Once a small Persian Gulf sheikhdom known locally as a center for pearl diving and boat construction, Kuwait came to international prominence in the post-World War II era largely because of its enormous oil revenues.

By the 1950s, an era of every woman being able to own her own pearl necklace had begun, and natural pearls were reduced to a small, exclusive niche in the pearl industry.

Along with a small piece of mantle tissue from another mollusk ( donor shell ) to serve as a catalyst for the pearl sac, it is surgically implanted into the gonad ( reproductive organ ) of a saltwater mollusk.

Mitsubishi was the first to produce a cultured south sea pearl – although it was not until 1928 that the first small commercial crop of pearls was successfully produced.

The original Japanese cultured pearls, known as akoya pearls, are produced by a species of small pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata martensii, which is no bigger than 6 to 8 cm in size, hence akoya pearls larger than 10 mm in diameter are extremely rare and highly priced.

If no nucleus is present, but irregular and small dark inner spots indicating a cavity are visible, combined with concentric rings of organic substance, the pearl is likely a cultured freshwater.

( see also Slavery in the Spanish New World colonies ) Although Spain claimed the entire Caribbean, they settled only the larger islands of Hispaniola ( 1493 ), Puerto Rico ( 1508 ), Jamaica ( 1509 ), Cuba ( 1511 ), and Trinidad ( 1530 ), although the Spanish made an exception in the case of the small ' pearl islands ' of Cubagua and Margarita off the Venezuelan coast because of their valuable pearl beds which were worked extensively between 1508 and1530.

Overfishing, habitat loss from heavy siltation, and water pollution have eliminated most commercial fishing except for a small mussel harvest to provide shells to seed pearl oysters overseas.

Kino, a young, strong, and poor pearl diver, lives in a small town, La Paz, with his partner Juana, and his baby son, Coyotito.

During the Warner Brothers era, Stefan Sagmeister designed the first Luaka Bop poster of a pearl floating in space, inscribed with " The World Is Our Oyster " and also designed Adventures in Afropea 3: Telling Stories To The Sea, using the drill to mark promo CDs as the basis for the insert, with every page's separate image revolving around the small hole in the middle.

Its small size led to it being known as the " Panama pill " or " Panama pearl ".

She made an attempt to frame her manservant, Rémy Couillard, by concealing a small pearl which she affirmed had been stolen at the time of the murder in a pocketbook belonging to Couillard ; after that fabrication was discovered, she blamed Alexandre Wolff, the son of her old housekeeper, but he was able to establish an alibi.

In these necklaces, the jet was strung using heavy cotton thread ; small knots were made on either side of each bead to keep the beads spaced evenly, much in the same way that fine pearl necklaces are made.

When in A. D. 640 the Chinese traveller Hsuan Tsang visited Kanchi ( Conjevaram ), the capital of the Pallava king, he learned that the kingdom of Chola ( Chu-li-ya ) embraced but a small territory, wild, and inhabited by a scanty and fierce population ; in the Pandya kingdom ( Malakuta ), which was under Pallava suzerainty, literature was dead, Buddhism all but extinct, while Hinduism and the naked Jain saints divided the religious allegiance of the people, and the pearl fisheries continued to flourish.

The first section recounts Captain van Toch's discovery of the Newts on a small island near Sumatra, their initial exploitation in the service of pearl farming, the beginning of their spread around the oceans of the world, and the development of their speech and absorption of human culture.

A common pearl “ seed ” is made from a small piece of the Mississippi pigtoe mussel shell that has been cut and ground in a sphere.

Along with a small piece of mantle tissue from another mollusk ( donor shell ) to serve as a catalyst for the pearl sac, it is surgically implanted into the gonad ( reproductive organ ) of a saltwater mollusk.

Mitsubishi was the first to produce a cultured south sea pearl – although it was not until 1928 that the first small commercial crop of pearls was successfully produced.

The original Japanese cultured pearls, known as akoya pearls, are produced by a species of small pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata martensii, which is no bigger than 6 to 8 cm in size, hence akoya pearls larger than 10 mm in diameter are extremely rare and highly priced.

The ICRISAT Genebank serves as a repository for the collection of germplasm of the five mandate crops – sorghum, pearl millet chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut ; and six small millets – finger millet, foxtail millet, little millet, kodo millet, proso millet and barnyard millet.

They also wear long white leather gloves that go well above the elbow and that close with small pearl buttons at the wrist, even though nowadays it is very common for girls to wear long satin gloves.

As a wedding gift, Grand Duke Ferdinando presented her with a pearl the " size of a small pigeon's egg.