Definition of Belon

1. a flat oyster [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Belon

bellyflopping
bellyflops
bellyful
bellyfuls
bellying
bellying up
bellyings
bellylaugh
bellyless
bellylike
bellytimber
bellywark
beload
belock
belomancy
belon (current term)
belonephobia
belong
belong to
belonged
belonger
belongers
belongership
belongest
belongeth
belonging
belongingness
belongingnesses
belongings
belongs

Literary usage of Belon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"These works, in which the genius of belon showed itself to be of a superior order, ... belon had already in his " Fishes " and his descriptions of plants ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"The words in which belon conveyed his request for this aid at once attest his ... belon left France at the beginning of 1546, and was gone between three and ..."

3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"This is the most agreeable species to eat when fresh. It is especially in request on the coasts of the Baltic Sea '. 1 belon believes that the word ..."

4. Introduction to the literature of Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and by Henry Hallam (1854)
"Less acquainted with books but with better opportunities of observing nature than Gesner, his con- temporary belon made greater accessions to zoology. ..."

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