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Non-nucleated pearl

A type of cultured pearl grown by the insertion of a piece of the mantle of a Japanese fresh-water mussel. Such pieces are generally whitish and are in the form of a bouton pearl.

From: An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry, autor: Harold Newman, publishers: Thames and Hudson