CRUSTATIONS Synonyms

• warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California

• tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly

• small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster

• large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters

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

• meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)

• invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

• disparaging terms for small people

• any of various edible decapod crustaceans

• small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible

• fish for shrimp

• used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.)

• marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together

• relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda

• marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles

• a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes

• flesh of a lobster

• any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae

• invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

• black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine

• marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc.

• marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters

• edible body of any of numerous oysters

• a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl

• gather oysters, dig oysters

• one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)

• edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces

• thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled

• edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions

• decorate an edge with scallops

• bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top

• form scallops in

• fish for scallops

• shape or cut in scallops