abalone

en-noun

abalone (usually uncountable, plural abalones)

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

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(Canada, US, Australia) An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl.


turbo

From the New Latin name of the genus Turbo.


tegula

Borrowed from Latin tegula (“a tile”), from tegō (“to cover”). Doublet of tile.

(malacology) Any sea snail in the genus Tegula.


paua

A large, edible abalone, Haliotis iris, native to New Zealand, whose shell is used to make jewelry.


alikreukel

(South Africa) giant periwinkle, Turbo sarmaticus


perlemoen

Borrowed from Afrikaans perlemoen, from Dutch perlemoer (“mother-of-pearl”).


black abalone

A black-shelled edible mollusc (Haliotis crachedorii), found off the North American Pacific coast.


pawa

1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, from "Selected Short Stories"
One little patch was divided off by pawa shells […]

(New Zealand) An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl.

ourmel collective noun ourmelenn singular


ormer

From Norman ormèr/ormer, variants of French ormier, contraction of oreille-de-mer, from Late Latin *auris maris (“ear of the sea”), from Latin auris (“ear”) + mare (“sea”).

der

The food I like best of all foods is ormers; but you can't always get them.

1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 16:

An abalone or sea-ear, particularly Haliotis tuberculata, common in the Channel Islands.


painted lady

A painted trillium (Trillium undulatum), a forest wildflower of North America.


lepetodrilid

en-adj

lepetodrilid (comparative more lepetodrilid, superlative most lepetodrilid)

more lepetodrilid (comparative)
most lepetodrilid (superlative)


trochus

From New Latin Trochus, from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós, “wheel”).

(malacology) Any member of the genus Trochus, or more generally of the family Trochidae; in non-specialist usage, including species formerly classified in that family, particularly Tectus niloticus.


turban shell

A marine gastropod of the family Turbinidae, or the shell thereof.


vetigastropod

(zoology) Any of the subclass Vetigastropoda of sea snails.


turbite

(paleontology) A fossil sea snail of the genus Turbo.


anatomid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Anatomidae.


anomphalid

(zoology) Any of the extinct gastropods in the family Anomphalidae.


areneid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Areneidae


ataphrid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Ataphridae, which is probably a synonym for the family Trochaclididae.


calliostomatid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Calliostomatidae.


cirrid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Cirridae.


clypeosectid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Clypeosectidae, which is now known as the Lepetodrilidae.


colloniid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Colloniidae.


cocculinellid

Papers on cocculinellid limpets and southern Australian Triphoridae were published, and papers on deep-sea pectinodontine, cocculinid, and pseudococculinid limpets are ready for submission.

1981, New Zealand Marine Sciences Newsletter, page 76:

In the absence of the highly diagnostic cocculinellid radula, Marshall (1983) referred C. coercita to Cocculinella because of the close similarity of the shell to those of C. minutissima and the New Zealand Recent species C. osteophila Marshall, 1983.

1985, B. A. Marshall, “Recent and Tertiary Cocculinidae and Pseudococculinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales”, in New Zealand Journal of Zoology, volume 12, number 4, page 541:

Cocculinellids have a narrowly elliptical aperture and subcentral apex.

1987, Fauna of Australia, volume 5, page 663:

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Cocculinellidae.


cyclostrematid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Cyclostrematidae.


eotomariid

(zoology) Any member of the gastropod family Eotomariidae.


fissurellid

(zoology) Any keyhole limpet in the family Fissurellidae.


gazid

(zoology) gastropod in the family Gazidae, now known as the Margaritidae.


haliotid

(zoology) Abalone, any member of the family Haliotidae.


holopeid

(zoology) Any extinct sea snail in the family Holopeidae.


hormotomid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Hormotomidae, now known as the Murchisoniidae.


lepetellid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Lepetellidae.


liotiid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Liotiidae.


microdomatid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Microdomatidae.


murchisoniid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Murchisoniidae.


osteopeltid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Osteopeltidae.


phasianellid

(zoology) Any member of species of the family Phasianellidae of gastropods.


pleurotomariid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Pleurotomariidae.


porcelliid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Porcelliidae.


pseudophorid

(zoology) Any extinct gastropod in the family Pseudophoridae.


pseudococculinid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Pseudococculinidae.


pyropeltid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Pyropeltidae.


scissurellid

(zoology) Any in the family Scissurellidae of gastropods.


seguenziid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Seguenziidae.


skeneid

(zoology) Any member of the family Skeneidae of marine snails.


stomatellid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Stomatellidae, now considered to be the trochid subfamily Stomatellinae.


trochid

(zoology) Any sea snail of the family Trochidae.


turbinid

Any mollusk in the gastropod family Turbinidae, the turban shells.


spur-shell

(dated) Any of several species of conical gastropod shells in the family Trochidae and genus Astraea in family Turbinidae, the margin of the shells being toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur.


topshell

A shell shaped like a toy top, found principally in the family Trochidae of marine gastropod mollusks or top snails.


rosary shell

The shell of any marine gastropods of the genus Monodonta. They are top-shaped, bright-coloured and pearly.


giant periwinkle

en-noun

giant periwinkle (plural giant periwinkles)


duck's-bill limpet

duck's-bill limpet (plural duck's-bill limpets)

(dated) A limpet of the genus Scutus, Scutus breviculus.


keyhole limpet

A member of the family Fissurellidae of marine gastropods.


green ormer

Haliotis tuberculata, an edible gastropod.


eucyclid

Any of the family †Eucyclidae of extinct gastropods.


muttonfish

muttonfish (plural muttonfish or muttonfishes)

muttonfish (plural)
muttonfishes (plural)

(chiefly US) Any of several Atlantic and Caribbean fishes which are said to taste of mutton, especially a mutton snapper (Lutjanus analis), an ocean pout (Macrozoarces americanus), or an Irish pompano (Diapterus auratus).

Some mornings when the tide was right out we went onto the reef with screwdrivers to prise off abalone, which we called muttonfish.

1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 28:

(Australia) Any of several edible molluscs of the genus Haliotis; an abalone.


delphinula

A sea snail of the species Angaria delphinus


fissurelloid

Any limpet of the superfamily Fissurelloidea


trochoidean

Any gastropod in the superfamily Trochoidea