haliotis tuberculata

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   an abalone found near the Channel Islands

   Synonymsormersea-ear

   Broaderabalone

Questions about haliotis tuberculata

What does haliotis tuberculata mean?

haliotis tuberculata means "an abalone found near the Channel Islands".

What is another word for haliotis tuberculata?

Close synonyms include ormer, sea-ear. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is haliotis tuberculata a common word?

haliotis tuberculata is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.