CRUSTATIONS Synonyms
There are 5 hypernyms of the word crustations. (close relations)
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| clams | nounn | |||||
noun • informal terms for money | ||||||
| crayfish | nounn | |||||
noun • warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California • tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly • small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster • large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | ||||||
| seafood | nounn | |||||
noun • edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc | ||||||
| shellfish | nounn | |||||
noun • meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) • invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | ||||||
| shrimp | nounn | |||||
noun • disparaging terms for small people • any of various edible decapod crustaceans • small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible verb • fish for shrimp | ||||||
| bivalves | nounn | |||||
adjective • used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) noun • marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | ||||||
| cephalopods | nounn | |||||
adjective • relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda noun • marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles | ||||||
| gastropods | nounn | |||||
noun • a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes | ||||||
| lobsters | nounn | |||||
noun • flesh of a lobster • any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae | ||||||
| mollusks | nounn | |||||
noun • invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | ||||||
| mussels | nounn | |||||
noun • black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine • marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc. | ||||||
| oysters | nounn | |||||
noun • marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters • edible body of any of numerous oysters • a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl verb • gather oysters, dig oysters | ||||||
| scallops | nounn | |||||
noun • one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) • edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces • thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled • edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions verb • decorate an edge with scallops • bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top • form scallops in • fish for scallops • shape or cut in scallops | ||||||
