scungilli
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9.9
A cooked sea snail people eat in salads or seafood dishes
- noun
- /skʌnˈdʒɪli/
- US
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caracol
- For dinner, I ordered a salad with scungilli and fresh vegetables.
Examples
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No scungilli tonight?
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Scungilli!
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The meat of the whelk (and that of the conch) is known as scungilli.
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At the Italian restaurant, I highly recommend trying the scungilli in garlic sauce.
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The chef prepared a delicious dish featuring scungilli and pasta.
Synonyms
winkle
vsscungilli
1
9.5
A small edible sea snail with a spiral shell
is a larger Italian-American shellfish often used cold in salads
edible snail
vsscungilli
1
3.0
A snail that people eat, often in French cooking
is the Italian-American version often served in salads or seafood dishes
Surface Forms
scungilli singular
scungillis plural
Etymology
The word scungilli comes from an Italian dialect word like conchiglia, which means 'shell' and is related to the English word conch. So scungilli points to sea snails — creatures that live in shells — and that is why the name is used for the shellfish often eaten in Italian-American dishes.