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- noun Plural form of
hyalea .
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As to the molluscs, they consisted of some I had already observed -- turritellas, olive porphyras, with regular lines intercrossed, with red spots standing out plainly against the flesh; odd pteroceras, like petrified scorpions; translucid hyaleas, argonauts, cuttle-fish (excellent eating), and certain species of calmars that naturalists of antiquity have classed amongst the flying-fish, and that serve principally for bait for cod-fishing.
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866
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