Meaning
4 senses(uncountable)Basic bismuth nitrate, or bismuth subchloride; used chiefly as a cosmetic.
(uncountable)A variety of white lead blued with indigo or Prussian blue.
(uncountable)A material made from fish scales, used in making artificial pearls.
(uncountable)Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Elodina.
Examples
1 sentencesShe smiled, her little pearl-white teeth gleaming in the moonlight, as she spoke.
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedpearly whites
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.