Sentence examples for the abalone from inspiring English sources
noun
An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl.
The abalone and eggplant stir-fry is sweet and meaty.
The abalone did not want to come off the rock.
Their sons, Roger and Nelson, circled the table, eyeing the abalone already dished up.
(The abalone is $40 to $200; the sea cucumber is about $25).
The large muscular foot of the abalone is eaten as a delicacy in several countries.
When I took another shot, there was no sign of the abalone, nor even of the spot I had identified.
The abalone might not be the right size, and I wouldn't necessarily be able to bring it up.
"For the abalone sauce we have a secret," Chan says, "we use the powder from shark's teeth".
Thousands of divers in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties capture nearly all of the abalone caught legally in the state.
There are one or two other eyes in gastropod mollusks that could qualify as pinhole eyes, notably those of the abalone genus Haliotis.
One such example is the shell muscle of the abalone Haliotis, which connects the domed shell of the animal to its adhesive foot.
