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Abalone
abalone
noun Etymology: American Spanish abulon, from Rumsen (American Indian language of Monterey Bay, Calif.) aulon Date: 1850 any of a genus (Haliotis) of edible rock-clinging gastropod mollusks that have a flattened shell slightly spiral in form, lined with mother-of-pearl, and with a row of apertures along its outer edge
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n. any mollusc of the genus Haliotis, with a shallow ear-shaped shell having respiratory holes, and lined with mother-of-pearl, e.g. the ormer. Etymology: Amer. Sp. abul{oacute}n ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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мал. морское ушко (Haliotis); pl галиотисы, морские ушки (Haliotidae) – disk abalone – donkey's ear abalone – giant abalone – most beautiful abalone – rainbow abalone ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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(abalones) Abalone is a shellfish that you can eat and that has a shiny substance called mother-of-pearl inside its shell. N-VAR ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n a kind of shellfish which is used as food and whose shell contains mother-of-pearl ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1888, Amer.Eng., from Sp. abulon from Costanoan (a California coastal Indian language) aluan "red abalone." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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