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ear shell

noun

ear shell

noun

  1. See abalone
    another name for the abalone

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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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