sea pork

9.9

Meat from some sea fish that people eat

noun

: pescado de mar

The restaurant is famous for its delicious sea pork curry served with rice.

Examples

Fishermen sometimes refer to porgy as sea pork at the market.
Adventurous diners often try sea pork when visiting coastal towns.
I ordered some sea pork at the restaurant.
Have you ever tried sea pork?
Adventurous diners often try sea pork when visiting coastal towns.
The restaurant is famous for its delicious sea pork curry served with rice.
Fishermen sometimes refer to porgy as sea pork at the market.

Synonyms

fish

vssea pork

805 1.0

Meat from a water animal that people cook and eat

is more specific, focusing on particular marine species or their meat

seafood

vssea pork

111 1.0

Animals from the sea that people eat, like fish and shellfish

is narrower, naming specific species or their meat rather than all sea edibles

saltwater fish

vssea pork

1 1.9

Meat from fish that live in the sea and people eat

is narrower, naming specific species or their meat rather than all sea flesh

food fish

vssea pork

1 2.1

A fish that people catch or farm to eat

is about particular species or their meat rather than the act of catching

Surface Forms

sea pork singular

sea porks plural

Morphology

sea + pork

The combination 'sea' + 'pork' transparently signals a food item from the sea, so a B1 learner who knows both words could infer it refers to edible marine flesh. However, because 'pork' normally denotes pig meat and the expression is rare and language-specific (referring to particular fish or tunicates), the exact referent and the metaphorical use of 'pork' are not fully predictable without prior exposure.

Etymology

Sea pork may come from fishermen who thought the pale, fatty 'meat' of some sea fish tasted like pork, with sea showing it comes from the ocean. So, sea pork now refers to the fish or its 'meat' that people eat.