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Answer for the clue "Edible shellfish ", 7 letters:
scallop

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Word definitions for scallop in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"bivalve mollusk," c.1400, from Old French escalope "shell (of a nut), carpace," variant of eschalope , probably from a Germanic source (compare Old Norse skalpr "sheath," Middle Dutch schelpe "shell"); see scale (n.1). The shells of the larger species ...

Usage examples of scallop.

Wash and drain two cupfuls of scallops, put into a saucepan and cover with salted boiling water, adding a bit of bay-leaf, four whole allspice, and two cloves.

They were halfway through their entree, Lo Manto savoring a mixed grill of squid, shrimp, scallops, eel, clams, and mussels and a large tomato and red onion salad while Felipe devoured a steak pizza iola garlic mashed potatoes, and a side of marinated eggplant.

In her pitifully plain taffeta, she was overwhelmed by the scallops, poufing, cording, piping, fringing, passementerie, and tassels that ornamented their sophisticated gowns.

Jenny swung from one side to the other, watching the pearl-edged scalloped hem ripple around her calves.

Then he began to eat, starting with the crust and working his way around until all he had was a small crustless square with scalloped edges.

And then she would smile hopefully, showing two front teeth so new that they still had scalloped edges, and everyone would laugh at her.

The deep violet-red wove down the edges in a scalloped pattern that mixed with white and purple, and was edged on one side with a reddish brown, like a braid of auburn hair laid across all that golden tan.

The scalloped line of colors flowed down the edge of the rear wings as it did the frontred-violet, white, purple, and reddish brown tracing the edge of all his wings downward past the brilliance of pink and orange to spill on long curved tails so that that last grace of wing was thick with dark stripes of color.

Lapping and licking, his tongue avidly worked down from her clit, until it teased the scalloped inner lips of her vagina.

The arrowhead of his cock homed through the outer lips of her labia, easily splaying the scalloped pink folds of her inner lips and drilling into the hot recesses of her humid vagina.

When at last they pouted open enough to expose the scalloped folds of her inner lips, he lapped up and down the pink slash.

Within the wet slit, he could see the scalloped folds of the trembling inner lips of her pussy.

In short teasing strokes he pumped rapidly into her fiery hole, never letting his cock drive deeper than just inside the scalloped folds of her inner lips.

Fan-vaulting arced to the ceiling, the spreading ribs of the fans blossoming into carved tracery, while the ceiling surface between the vaults was closely decorated with scalloped rosettes.

Under the scalloped layers of foliage a sweet wind breathed upon the wild thyme cushioning the banks.