ABALONE

[ab.a.lo.ne] n [AmerSp abulon, fr. Rumsen (American Indian language of Monterey Bay, Calif.) aulon] (1850): any of a genus (Haliotis) of edible rock-clinging gastropod mollusks that have a flattened shell slightly spiral in form, lined with mother-of-pearl, and with a row of apertures along its outer edge