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noun
abalone.
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Words nearby ear shell

Earp, Wyatt, earreach, earring, ear rot, ear sewer, ear shell, earshot, earsplitting, ear stone, ear tag, earth
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How to use ear shell in a sentence

  • The Haliotidæ offer in the representative genus Haliotis, or the "Ear-shell," another familiar mantelpiece ornament.

    Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils|Peter Gray

  • Haliotis, the ear-shell, is remarkable for its brilliant colours, and for a line of singular perforations in many of the species.

    The Ocean World:|Louis Figuier

British Dictionary definitions for ear shell

ear shell
noun
another name for the abalone
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