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seafood

seafood

111 1.0
Animals from the sea that people eat, like fish and shellfish
  • noun
  • /ˈsiːfʊd/
translation icon : mariscos
  • The restaurant is famous for its variety of seafood dishes, including shrimp and crab.
  • a seafood restaurant
  • seafood consumption
  • a seafood market

For example, Santa Monica also accepts meat, seafood scraps and dairy products.

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Examples

  • And today we are doing your iconic seafood boil.

  • It's dinner time and we're going to make seafood Korean pancakes.

  • In other words, people are not eating enough seafood and fish.

  • I know a good seafood place.

  • Well, lucky for us, we're having seafood in Boston.

  • Prices of fresh fruits, fish, seafood fell in December from November levels.

  • We went to his house that time, and he served that seafood casserole.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • The seafood truck spilled its load.

  • Recent increases in consumer demand for seafood have placed added pressure on traditional fishery stocks.

    Academic text (1993)
  • They deliver America's best meat and seafood to you year round.

Compounds

Fish and shellfish caught recently that are not frozen or salted

A meal with many seafood dishes that people serve themselves

A meal of fish and shellfish for the main course

1 8.1

A dish of seafood in a rich creamy sauce served on toast or rice

2.5

A tangy sauce to eat with seafood like shrimp and oysters

How Perishable

seafood
111 1.0
dairy
77 1.0
perishable
5 3.7
freeze-dried
  • Specialized
6 4.1
canned food
11 1.0

Surface Forms

seafood singular
seafoods plural

Morphology

seafood = sea + food (transparent) = sea + food

A direct compound of 'sea' + 'food' whose meaning 'food from the sea' is obvious to learners.

Etymology

Seafood is simply sea + food, so it literally means 'food' from the 'sea'. Think of fish, shrimp and oysters on a plate, and that's why seafood means fish and other sea animals you can eat.