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