MUSSELS Synonyms
There are 7 hypernyms of the word mussels. (close relations)
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| clams | nounn | |||||
noun • informal terms for money | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| cockles | nounn | |||||
noun • common edible European bivalve • common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs verb • stir up (water) so as to form ripples • to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
