abalone

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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

The only otter seen on Thursday was way off shore, floating on its back atop a kelp bed — presumably eating some tasty morsel, such as a crab or abalone, retrieved from the sea floor.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025

On special is an abalone soup, an alien beast in his time, and not our cup of tea, but they say Hemingway took a shine.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2025

The California coast was once home to the greatest number of abalone species in the world — black, white, red, green, pink, flat and pinto.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2025

Standing before them was a twenty-foot-tall woman in a flowing green dress, cinched at the waist with a belt of abalone shells.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan