fruits de mer — meaning in English

English meaning

• seafood noun Edible fish and shellfish taken from the sea (or, loosely, from any body of water).
• shellfish noun An aquatic animal with a shell, such as a crab, mussel, or oyster, especially one eaten as food.

Senses

fruits de mer is used for these senses in English:

• seafood Fish, shellfish, seaweed, and other edible aquatic life.
• shellfish A culinary and nutritional term for several groups of non-piscine, non-tetrapod, aquatic animals that are used as a food source. The term often exclusively refers to edible aquatic crustaceans, bivalve mollusks and cephalopod mollusks; but sometimes echinoderms may be included as well.

Related French words