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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of gastropods, typified by the genus Haliotis, containing the seaears, ear-shells, abalones, or ormers.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun A natural family of mollusks including the abalone (Haliotis).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun abalones

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