abalone
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- noun
- /ˌæbəˈloʊni/
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abalón
- The chef prepared a delicious dish featuring abalone as its main ingredient.
- abalone shell
- red abalone
And what he saw no kelp, no sea otters, no abalone.
- And what he saw no kelp, no sea otters, no abalone.
Examples
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Seen from the right angle, the city was a sequence of seashells, glistening abalone, and mother-of-pearl.
Fiction book (1994) -
Oh, he was diving for abalone off of Point Reyes...
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Worked in pearl and abalone farms.
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Abalone was the same story; private parties taking abalone for commercial sale had been outlawed for years.
Fiction book (1999) -
The deep fried tofu, the abalone sauce is amazing.
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An abalone is a large snail, considered a delicacy by many.
Academic text (2007) -
We also ate a lot of shrimp, lobster, abalone, and assorted fish.
Blog text (30) -
In their outstretched arms, they carried abalone shells from which smoldering incense sent up clouds of smoke.
Fiction book (1995) -
Scattered across the sand lie a few flaked cobbles and plentiful shells of limpets and red and black abalone.
Academic text (2007) -
When diving, I spotted several abalone clinging to the rocks beneath the waves.
Synonyms
A large sea snail with a flat, shiny shell eaten as food
A group of sea snails called abalones that live on rocky coasts and have shiny inner shells
A sea snail with a flat ear-shaped shell found near the Channel Islands
How Prized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Abalone comes from a Native American coastal word that passed into Spanish as abulón and then into English. It was the local name for the edible animal 'sea snail' with a flat, ear-shaped shell, so abalone now means that shellfish and its shiny 'mother-of-pearl' shell.