ear shell

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Example sentences from the Web for ear shell

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

  Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils|Peter Gray

• 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