an edible mollusc of warm seas, with a shallow ear-shaped shell lined with mother-of-pearl and pierced with a line of respiratory holes 鲍鱼。 亦称 ormer, ear shell
Genus Haliotis, family Haliotidae, class Gastropoda 鲍属,鲍科,腹足纲
语源
mid 19th cent. (originally North American): from American Spanish abulones, plural of abulón, from aulón, the name in an American Indian language of Monterey Bay, California