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abalone

[ab-uh-loh-nee] / ˌæb əˈloʊ ni /
NOUN
shell
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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“The shucked abalone is trimmed, butterflied, and thwacked lightly with a mallet.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

He notes there is hardly a commercial fishing industry in California anymore and that once-abundant marine life, such as abalone, has become a culinary privilege for the elite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Kim Namin, 29, runs a seasoned gim processing factory with a 30-year family history in Wando, an island in South Korea's southern waters known for abalone and seaweed production.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

More adventurous eaters will zone in on the abalone served with a squash rosette or the guinea hen with potato millefeuille.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025

But still I made another string for my fishing spear, many hooks of abalone shell, and last of all earrings to match the necklace Tutok had given me.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell

He recalled dishes considered delicacies such as donkey meat and abalones - a type of mollusc - being flown in from Pyongyang.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2023

“Chinese people like to eat these expensive foods like sea cucumbers and abalones at our Lunar New Year family gatherings because we have worked very hard over the past year,” Fong said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2022

The traditional dish known as “poon choi,” or “basin food,” is a large dish filled with lotus root, radish, taro and more expensive delicacies such as prawns, abalones and meat layered on top.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2022

For centuries, fishermen have carved their homes into the bluffs, like bird’s nests, plucking abalones and sailing out for bamboo crabs.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2016

“Suppose I get an order for abalones and maybe the game warden thinks I’m using my collecting permit too often. Suppose he thinks I’m eating them.”

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck


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