ear shell


noun

Example sentences from the Web for ear shell

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

  • 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