What part of speech is abalone?

Abalone can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. abalone is a noun, singular of abalones.

Inflections

Noun

What does abalone mean?

Definitions

Noun

abalone - any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior

Examples of abalone

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1. noun Abalone once supported important commercial and recreational fisheries in California, but the impacts of overfishing and disease have prompted the listing of two species of abalone, white and black, as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
2. noun Usually found in or near kelp forests, sea otters dine on invertebrates such as snails, crabs, octopuses, urchins, and abalone.
3. noun On the rocks where the holdfasts secure kelp fronds to the bottom live many invertebrates including abalone, sea urchins and sea stars.
Sentence  
noun
Abalone once supported important commercial and recreational fisheries in California, but the impacts of overfishing and disease have prompted the listing of two species of abalone, white and black, as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
Usually found in or near kelp forests, sea otters dine on invertebrates such as snails, crabs, octopuses, urchins, and abalone.
On the rocks where the holdfasts secure kelp fronds to the bottom live many invertebrates including abalone, sea urchins and sea stars.

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