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Edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells
Answer for the clue "Edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells ", 8 letters:
escallop
Alternative clues for the word escallop
- Thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
- Bake potatoes in sauce
- Bake in a sauce
- Bake in a sauce, as potatoes (Var.)
- Served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- Edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- One way to cook
Word definitions for escallop in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"scallop shell," also "edge or border cut in the shape of scallops," late 15c., from Middle French escalope "shell," Old French eschalope "shell (of a nut), carapace," from a Germanic source (see scallop ). For initial e- , see e- . As a verb from c.1600 ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Usage examples of escallop.
Gerard had come to the entrees-- Londonderry pheasants, escallops of duck, and rissolettes a la pompadour.
With the chicken was a lovely casserole of escalloped potatoes, rich with cream sauce and tender onions, that was calling to me from my plate.
But we were bound to walk, so we went on, whilst above our heads waved medusae whose umbrellas of opal or rose-pink, escalloped with a band of blue, sheltered us from the rays of the sun and fiery pelagiae, which, in the darkness, would have strewn our path with phosphorescent light.
Crow took a mouthful of escalloped veal while the duke digested that bit of wisdom.
But we were bound to walk, so we went on, while above our heads waved shoals of physalides leaving their tentacles to float in their train, medusæ whose umbrellas of opal or rose-pink, escalloped with a band of blue, sheltered us from the rays of the sun, and fiery pelagiæ, which in the darkness would have strewn our path with phosphorescent light.