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- [ab-uh-loh-nee]
- /ˌæb əˈloʊ ni/
- /æb.ə.ˈləʊ.ni/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [ab-uh-loh-nee]
- /ˌæb əˈloʊ ni/
Definitions of abalone word
- variable noun abalone Abalone is a shellfish that you can eat and that has a shiny substance called mother-of-pearl inside its shell. 3
- noun abalone any of various edible marine gastropod molluscs of the genus Haliotis, having an ear-shaped shell that is perforated with a row of respiratory holes. The shells are used for ornament or decoration 3
- noun abalone any of a family (Haliotidae) of edible gastropod sea mollusks with an oval, somewhat spiral shell perforated near the edge and lined with mother-of-pearl 3
- noun abalone a large mollusk of the genus Haliotis, having a bowllike shell bearing a row of respiratory holes, the flesh of which is used for food and the shell for ornament and as a source of mother-of-pearl. 1
- noun abalone An edible mollusk of warm seas that has a shallow ear-shaped shell lined with mother-of-pearl and pierced with respiratory holes. 1
- noun abalone mollusc 1
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Origin of abalone
First appearance:
before 1840 One of the 33% newest English words
1840-50, Americanism; taken as singular of California Spanish abulones, plural of abulón, aulón < a word in Rumsen, a Costanoan language formerly spoken at Monterey, California
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Parts of speech for Abalone
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abalone popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 79% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for abalone
noun abalone
- mollusk — any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
- ear — the part of a cereal plant, as corn, wheat, etc., that contains the flowers and hence the fruit, grains, or kernels.
- ormer — an abalone, Haliotis tuberculata, living in waters of the Channel Islands.
- shell — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
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