MOLLUSCS Synonyms

• ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell

• 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

• tentacles of octopus prepared as food

• bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles

• 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

• freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell

• edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic

• gather snails

• (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food

• widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins

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

• someone who is easily taken advantage of

• any undertaking that is easy to do

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

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

• a youthful female person