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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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