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avalone

avalone is the obsolete spelling of abalone.

Meaning of abalone

Noun

abalone (usually uncountable, plural abalones)

  1. (Australia, Canada, Hong-Kong, Singapore, US, usually) An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl.
    • After he had brought it close to the canoe, he looked down and saw that it was a great live abalone caught in the flesh. Its color shone out of the water. As it ascended it was so big that all the canoes seemed to come inside of it, and it shone in every one's face1909, John Reed Swanton (translator), edited by John Reed Swanton, Tlingit Myths and Texts, The Poor Man who Caught Wonderful Things
  2. (Australia, Canada, Hong-Kong, Singapore, US, usually) The meat of the aforementioned mollusc.

Forms of avalone

pluralavalones

Questions about avalone

What is avalone the obsolete spelling of?
Avalone is the obsolete spelling of abalone.

Words near avalone in the dictionary

  1. Avallones
  2. Avalogoli
  3. Avalokiteshvara
  4. Avalon
  5. Avalon Beach
  6. avalone
  7. avalones
  8. Avalonia
  9. Avalonian
  10. Avalos
  11. Avaloses

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