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🦪 A sea mollusk 🥩 A thin meat slice 🍲 To bake with sauce
escallop

escallop

8.0
A sea shellfish with a fan-shaped shell eaten as food
  • noun
  • /ɪˈskæl.əp/
  • Archaic
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  • The chef prepared grilled escallop with a garlic butter sauce.

Examples

  • The chef prepared delicious escallops with garlic butter.

  • I ordered escallops at the seafood restaurant.

  • She enjoys adding chopped escallop to her seafood salad for extra flavor.

  • The restaurant's signature dish features baked escallop in a creamy sauce.

  • The chef prepared grilled escallop with a garlic butter sauce.

  • She enjoys adding chopped escallop to her seafood salad for extra flavor.

  • The restaurant's signature dish features baked escallop in a creamy sauce.

Synonyms

scallop
vsescallop
40 3.7

A sea animal with a fan-shaped shell that you can eat

is the scientific classification term rather than a general food category
mollusk
vsescallop
  • US
11 5.6

A soft-bodied animal like a snail or clam that often has a shell

is a narrower edible species rather than the whole biological phylum
shellfish
vsescallop
5 2.2

Meat from sea animals with a shell, like crab or clams

is the narrow species term rather than the broad edible-meat category
scollop
vsescallop
  • UK
8.1

A sea animal with a fan-shaped shell eaten as food

is the same meaning but is the alternate spelling with an extra initial letter

Surface Forms

escallop singular
escallops plural

Etymology

Escallop comes from an old French word meaning 'shell' and is the same root as scallop, the shellfish, so think of the fan-shaped shell that holds the meat. So escallop means the shellfish itself or the edible muscle from inside that shell.