seafood
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noun
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Meanings
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1
noun
Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.
But most of all, they were jealous because these strangers feasted daily on great turtle, albacore and sail-fish, the sweetest of all seafoods.
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2
noun
Food from any aquatic source, including not only salt water but also fresh water.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:seafood.
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3
noun
edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
Etymology
From sea + food.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
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noun
· food from the sea,...
fruit of the sea
Word family
Derived forms
nonseafoodseafooderseafoodieseafoodyseagan