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n. A large, edible abalone, Haliotis iris, native to New Zealand, whose shell is used to make jewelry.

n. The shell of this mollusc.

n. A fish hook made from this shell.

n. The Maori name of the mutton-fish: also used as the name for Maori fish-hooks, made of the paua-shell, the same word being adopted for fish, shell, and hook.

"That was then and now is now, when younger and more tender farmed abalones are almost invariably what you are likely to get, unless you consort with poachers in New Zealand and they give you some of the paua they pry from the ocean floor with stealth and special iron tools."

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