The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word NACRE
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More clues leading to the result NACRE
- What’s in shells concerning sub’s attacker up above
- Northern river covered in top-quality shellfish
- Pearl’s mother, a credit in the Sunderland area?
- New land area provides iridescent material
- Northern race excited by mother-of-pearl
- Gem from North America, only partly cream
- Inlay carved regularly from this material
- Middle of manky area inside of shell
- Some garden perhaps under final flicker of sun, which shines
- Pearl’s mother and father can’t part over this?
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What does NACRE mean?
NACRE noun- A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl.
- A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl.