Sentence example with the word 'abalone'

abalone

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

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ABALONE, the Spanish name used in California for various species of the shell-fish of the Haliotidae family, with a richly coloured shell yielding mother-of-pearl.   [Please select]

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As it was nearly low tide, I soon had a piece of abalone on my hook, and was fishing.   [Please select]

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Ditto, with arrow-point, coral (á-la-ho), white, shell disk (k‘o-hakwa) and abalone (sho-to-thlí än) ornaments bound about the region of the heart.   [Please select]

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