pauan.
/ˈpaʊə/, /ˈpɑːwə/, U.S. /ˈpaʊə/, /ˈpɑwə/, New Zealand English /ˈpʌːuʌ/, /ˈpʌːwə/ New Zealand.
1. Any of several large edible abalones (genus Haliotis) of New Zealand waters; esp. the native H. iris, which attaches itself to rocks by suction.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > genus Haliotis > member of
ormer1637
sea-ear1681
Norman shell1703
klipkous1731
paua1846
abalone1850
Venus's ear1859
awabi1889
perlemoen1891
1820 Gram. & Vocab. Lang. N.Z. (Church Missionary Soc.) 191 Paua, s. a shell-fish so called.]
1846 C. Heaphy Jrnl. 6 Apr. in N. M. Taylor Early Travellers N.Z. (1959) 211 The mutton fish, or pawa, although resembling india rubber in toughness and colour, is very excellent and substantial food for explorers.
1879 Auckland Weekly News 4 Jan. 17 At low water the great delicacies called pawa and pipis are to be obtained in any quantity.
1904 E. Tregear Maori Race 188 A hook used with the line running behind a canoe was decorated with the iridescent shell of the haliotis (paua).
1949 P. H. Buck Coming of Maori (1950) i. ii. 13 The shores [of the Chatham Islands] yielded quantities of shell fish which included the paua.
1966 J. K. Baxter Pig Island Lett. 13 A corrugated shack With fried pauas in the pan.
1998 Food & Trav. Apr. 26/1 Logan Brown is one of the restricted number of restaurants licensed to serve paua, the shellfish known outside New Zealand as abalone.
2. In full paua shell. The broad oval shell of any of these molluscs, which has a row of holes along the back and an iridescent blue, green, and pink lining, and is used, esp. by Maoris, in jewellery and ornaments.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > mollusc or sea-shells
buckie1596
blackamoor's tooth1700
burgau1753
seashell1837
Bombay shell1858
paua shell1873
black helmet1876
1873 J. H. H. St. John Pakeha Rambles through Maori Lands vii. 131 The eyes [of a carving] are formed of the inner coating of the ‘pawa’ shell, a kind of blueish mother of pearl.
1920 ‘K. Mansfield’ Bliss 43 Chocolate custard which she had decided to serve in the pawa shell.
1936 ‘R. Hyde’ Check to your King xvii. 203 The women cut their flesh with thin paua shell.
1958 S. Ashton-Warner Spinster 162 The released mind revolves, flashing different colours like a paua.
1990 T. Ruprecht Toronto's Many Faces 35 Australian and New Zealand Imports..sells oilskin coats,..saddles, paua shell jewelry, opals, [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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