scallop
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈskæl.əp/
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vieira
- At the seaside restaurant, we enjoyed a delicious plate of scallops sautéed in garlic butter.
- sea scallops
- bay scallops
- scallop meat
This one has squid scallops and shrimp and stuff.
- This one has squid scallops and shrimp and stuff.
- The apple juice that we use to marinate the scallop is also affected by that.
- I mean, octopuses are on the same lineage as bivalves and scallops and so on.
- And bring the product in, you know, scallops, shrimp, flounder, crabs, Blue Crabs.
- The ones we eat, they're scallops, mussels, cockles, oysters, things like that.
- The rays decimated the mollusk population and destroyed the mussel and scallop industry.
- We're going to move from scallops to Hamoni Barico.
Examples
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The ones we eat, they're scallops, mussels, cockles, oysters, things like that.
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Recorded landings exceeded 40 million pounds of scallop meat in 1984.
Academic text (1993) -
Sir Robert began by showing them the silver scallop shell and asking if they had seen it before.
Fiction book (1993) -
A small number of scallop shells lay on the floor near his right shoulder.
Academic text (2009) -
And we have some scallops to use up here.
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I hope you like scallops.
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I quickly ate a few scallops and left to find Doc.
Fiction book (1992) -
Sea scallops with three caviars.
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Out there, right now, we are harvesting scallops.
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Gently poach the scallops.
Synonyms
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2.2
Meat from sea animals with a shell, like crab or clams
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3.4
A large sea animal with a shell that people eat for its tender meat
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3.7
A small edible shellfish with sweet, tender meat from shallow coastal waters
A sea animal with a fan-shaped shell eaten as food
A sea shellfish with a fan-shaped shell eaten as food
Compounds
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4.4
A fan-shaped shell with lines from the middle to the edge often used as a symbol
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Scallop names the sea animal that lives in a fan-shaped, ridged shell; imagine a small hand fan or shell with ribs — that strong image is why the animal is called a scallop.