batea
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A floating platform for growing mussels and other shellfish
- noun
- Specialized
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batea
- The workers checked the mussels growing on the ropes beneath the batea every morning.
Examples
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Tourists watched as fishermen harvested oysters from the floating batea near the shore.
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The batea floated gently on the water.
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A new batea was installed in the bay to increase shellfish production.
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Look at that batea!
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A new batea was installed in the bay to increase shellfish production.
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Tourists watched as fishermen harvested oysters from the floating batea near the shore.
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The workers checked the mussels growing on the ropes beneath the batea every morning.
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Batea comes from Spanish and Portuguese and originally meant a shallow wooden 'tray'. That's why a floating platform for mussels is called a batea: it looks like a big 'tray' on the water that holds ropes and shellfish.