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prettygoodwordabalone (ab-uh-LOH-nee) - n., any of various large edible marine gastropods (genus Haliotis) having an ear-shaped shell with a row of holes along the outer edge.
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Considered eminently edible and the nacre on the inside is used for mother-of-pearl, so they are farmed pretty much anywhere various species can thrive. The common name used today dates to only the 1840s, taken from California Spanish as a mistaken singular form of abulones, plural of the actual singular form abulón, from an indigenous Ohlone language of the Monterey Bay area, probably Rumsen, where aūlun is/was (the language is extinct) the name for red abalone (H. rufescens, shown above), the most common local species. Until then, various local names were used including ear-shell and ormer.
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Considered eminently edible and the nacre on the inside is used for mother-of-pearl, so they are farmed pretty much anywhere various species can thrive. The common name used today dates to only the 1840s, taken from California Spanish as a mistaken singular form of abulones, plural of the actual singular form abulón, from an indigenous Ohlone language of the Monterey Bay area, probably Rumsen, where aūlun is/was (the language is extinct) the name for red abalone (H. rufescens, shown above), the most common local species. Until then, various local names were used including ear-shell and ormer.
---L.
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