seafood

A2
US /ˈsiːfuːd/
noun Freq #11998

Meanings

  1. 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.

  2. 2
    noun

    Food from any aquatic source, including not only salt water but also fresh water.

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:seafood.

  3. 3
    noun

    edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc

Etymology

From sea + food.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · food from the sea,... fruit of the sea
Word family
Derived forms nonseafoodseafooderseafoodieseafoodyseagan

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