English dictionary, thesaurus, translations & etymology
FreeDict.com

marisco — meaning in English

Portuguese → English · translate English → Portuguese instead

English meaning

  • oyster noun A soft-bodied shellfish that lives inside a hard, rough shell, often eaten raw and sometimes producing pearls.
  • 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

marisco 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.

oyster — full definition

  1. noun A soft-bodied shellfish that lives inside a hard, rough shell, often eaten raw and sometimes producing pearls.
  2. adj A pale beige colour with hints of grey or pink, resembling the inside of an oyster shell.
  3. verb To gather or fish for oysters.

Related Portuguese words