abalone

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior

From American Spanish abulón, from an indigenous language of the Monterey Bay area such as Rumsen/Southern Ohlone aūlun (“red abalone”)

*Law of the Abalone, The. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
Our dragnet was filled with Midas abalone, harp shells, obelisk snails, and especially the finest hammer shells I had seen to that day. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne
The roofs are for the most part of earthen tiles, imburnt with strong prismatic colors, and shining like the inner surfaces of abalone shells. — The Land of Thor, J. Ross (John Ross) Browne

ear-shell

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