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• avalone (obsolete)

語源

From American Spanish abulón, from an indigenous language of the Monterey Bay area such as Rumsen/Southern Ohlone aūlun (“red abalone”)

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /æb.əˈləʊ.ni/
• (General American) IPA: /æb.əˈloʊ.ni/, /ˈæb.əˌloʊ.ni/
• (Singapore) IPA: /ˈæbəlɒn/

名詞

abalone (usually uncountable, plural abalones)

1. (Canada, US, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore) An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl. [mid 19th c.]
   • 1909, John Reed Swanton (translator), edited by John Reed Swanton, Tlingit Myths and Texts, The Poor Man who Caught Wonderful Things:

     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 face

2. (Canada, US, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore) The meat of the aforementioned mollusc. [mid 19th c.]

同意語

• (UK) ear shell, (Guernsey) ormer, (New Zealand) paua, pawa, (South Africa) perlemoen

派生語

参考

• paua

参照

Further reading

• Abalone in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Abalone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “abalone”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.