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ear shell

noun



ear shell

noun

  1. another name for the abalone
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The Haliotidæ offer in the representative genus Haliotis, or the "Ear-shell," another familiar mantelpiece ornament.

Haliotis, the ear-shell, is remarkable for its brilliant colours, and for a line of singular perforations in many of the species.

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