pāua

See also: paua

Maori

Noun

pāua

  1. Any of the three species of large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Haliotidae (sole genus Haliotis), known in the United States and Australia as abalone, and in the United Kingdom as ormer shells.
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