ormer

noun /ˈɔːmə/

1. An abalone or sea-ear, particularly Haliotis tuberculata, common in the Channel Islands.

   The food I like best of all foods is ormers; but you can't always get them.

Where it comes from

From Norman ormèr/ormer, variants of French ormier, contraction of oreille-de-mer, from Late Latin *auris maris (“ear of the sea”), from Latin auris (“ear”) + mare (“sea”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry ormer (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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