Definitions for abalone

abalone ab·a·lo·ne

Spelling: [ab-uh-loh-nee]
IPA: /ˌæb əˈloʊ ni/

Abalone is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 155 anagrams from letters in abalone (aabelno).

Definitions for abalone

noun

  1. 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.

Origin of abalone

1840-50, Americanism; taken as singular of California Spanish abulones, plural of abulón, aulón

Examples for abalone

The habitation deposit consists of loose, ashy dark soil charged with clam and abalone shells, and mammal and bird bones.

The body of the abalone is a mass of muscle that has tremendous strength.

But the abalone—as a Christian comestible he is a stranger to me and the tooth o' me.

She also hangs wampum or bits of abalone shell on the finest ones.

Not another one of us was ever caught in the closing shell of an abalone.

I'll leave them here for you—and there's plenty of turtle and abalone to be had for the catching.

abalone shell was commonly used by peoples of adjacent California.

In California, tourists have been pitted against career foragers, causing problems for wild mushrooms and abalone.

I insist on knowing; and what was that abalone shell remark?

The Haliotis or abalone was also used and was called uhl-lo.

Word Value for abalone
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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