| ABALONE, subst. masc. ÉTYMOL. − Mot angl.-amér. de Californie « mollusque univalve du genre Haliotis ou crustacé du genre Auris marina » attesté ds DAE 1870 (Amer. Naturalist, III, 250 : These shells are popularly called Sea-ears ... In California the people call them Abalones. Ibid., 256 : the exports of Haliotis or Abalone shells from San Francisco ... in the year 1866), Encycl. britan., s.v. |