a sea-snail genus of Turbo marmoratus or Turbo petholatus mollusks with hard, limy operculum fished from Australian or Indo-China coast; it is used as a source of mother-of-pearl, pearl buttons, imitation pearls, and other objects, which are known as Antilles pearls or oil pearl. The pearls are detected by yellowish nonnacreous bottom. Also called green snail shell, green turban. Operculum.
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(2009). turbo. In: Manutchehr-Danai, M. (eds) Dictionary of Gems and Gemology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72816-0_22240
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