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verb
- fish for scallops
- (intransitive) To harvest scallops
- shape or cut in scallops
- decorate an edge with scallops
- form scallops in
- bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top
- To create or form an edge in the shape of a crescent or multiple crescents.
- (transitive) To bake in a casserole (gratin), originally in a scallop shell; especially used in form scalloped
noun
- 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
- edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
- A dish shaped like a scallop shell.
- (cooking) A fillet of meat, escalope.
- One of a series of curves, forming an edge similar to a scallop shell, especially in knitting and crochet.
- (cooking, UK, regional, rare) A sautéed potato (a shallow-fried round potato slice).
- Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Pectinoidea.
- (cooking, UK, Ireland, Australia, regional) A battered and deep-fried round potato slice.
verb
noun
- edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
- Alternative spelling of scallop.
noun
- seafood served in a scallop shell
- a dish in the form of a scallop shell
- A meal, especially a seafood dish, served in an actual scallop shell or a dish (container) shaped like a shell.
- A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled.
- A scallop shell or a dish shaped like one, especially when used to serve the aforementioned food.
verb
adj
noun
- (figurative) Someone packed or crammed into a small space.
- Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Sardina pilchardus, syn. Clupea pilchardus). The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the Atlantic herring and of the menhaden.
- Dark-brown sard.
- small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
- small fatty fish usually canned
- any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
- a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
verb
noun
- shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible
- any of various edible decapod crustaceans
- (Australia, colloquial, derogatory) Synonym of butterface: A woman with an attractive body but an unattractive face.
- (Australia, slang) A fool, an idiot.
- (Commonwealth) A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp.
- Alternative form of porn.
- A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
noun
- Such fish prepared as food.
- Any of several small fish, mostly in families Atherinidae and Atherinopsidae, both in order Atheriniformes, that are characterized by bright, silvery scales.
- (British) The upper side of a round of beef.
- (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, informal) Corned beef made with this type of meat.
- small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States
noun
- A scombroid fish.
- (uncountable) A relatively low-quality grade of Spanish saffron.
- A rugged range of mountains.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Sierra from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- a Spanish mackerel of western North America
- a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline)
noun
- Any fish in the family Scatophagidae.
- (music, jazz) Scat singing.
- (slang, pornography) Coprophilia, scatophilia.
- A tax; tribute.
- (biology) Animal excrement; droppings, dung.
- (slang) Heroin.
- (uncommon) A blow; a hit, an impact.
- (UK, dialect) A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.
- (Shetland) A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
- singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
intj
verb
noun
- any of various fishes of the family Scombridae
- A true mackerel, any fish of tribe Scombrini (Scomber spp., Rastrelliger spp.)
- flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish
- Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled,
- Certain other similar small fish in families Carangidae, Gempylidae, and Hexagrammidae.
- Typically Scomber scombrus in the British isles.
- (chiefly attributive, of clouds, the sky, etc) A regular pattern, similar to fish scales, of undulating small clouds with sky visible between them.
noun
- edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
- (by extension) Food from any aquatic source, including not only salt water but also fresh water.
- Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.
noun
- Any of certain saltwater sciaenid (Sciaenidae) fishes.
- (metallurgy) Residual ore that failed to melt during a smelting process.
- Mylopharodon conocephalus of fresh waters in California.
- One who is practical or hardheaded.
- Any of several weeds in or formerly classified in the genus Centaurea, especially Russian knapweed (Acroptilon repens).
- A brown diving duck, Aythya australis, native to Australia.
- (historical) A Scottish billon coin circulated in the reigns of Mary and James VI.
noun
- flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
- large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite
- (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
- Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots
- any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
- a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
- (US) A small bluefish.
- A snap beetle (family Elateridae).
- One who, or that which, snaps.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The fish Chrysophrys auratus, especially an adult of the species.
- The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).
- (US) Small, paper-wrapped item containing a minute quantity of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, which explodes noisily when thrown onto a hard surface.
- (slang, entertainment) A punchline.
- (US) Any of the family Lutjanidae of percoid fishes, especially the red snapper.
- (slang) The vulva.
- (Ireland, slang) A (human) baby.
- (historical) A telegraphic device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder.
- (US, informal) The snapping turtle.
- (American football) The player who snaps the ball to start the play.
- (slang) One who takes snaps; a photographer.
- (US, colloquial) A string bean.
- A stumble, a trip.
- (US politics, historical) A supporter of Senator Hill's premature scheduling of the Democratic National Committee convention of 1892.
- An error, a blunder, especially a moral slip-up.
verb
prefix
noun
noun
noun
- any market fish — edible saltwater fish or shellfish — except herring
- silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
- flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
- A beluga (both the sturgeon and the whale).
- Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.
- (cooking, fishing) Any of several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod, whiting, and haddock, as opposed to the oily or pelagic fishes.
- Any of several other fish, such as whiting (Merlangius merlangus) or menhaden (Brevoortia spp. and Ethmidium spp.).
- A lesser queenfish (Scomberoides lysan)
verb
noun
- any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas
- flesh of mostly Pacific food fishes of the genus Sarda of the family Scombridae; related to but smaller than tuna
- fish whose flesh is dried and flaked for Japanese cookery; may be same species as skipjack tuna
- A large tropical fish of species Katsuwonus pelamis (skipjack tuna), allied to the tunny.
- The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern United States and the West Indies.
- The cobia or crab eater (Rachycentron canadum), an edible fish of warm waters globally.
- Any of various marine fish of the genus Sarda that are related to and resemble the tuna, but smaller.
verb
noun
- 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
- (uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.
- (slang, uncommon) Synonym of butterface
- Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.
- (slang) A small, puny or unimportant person.
- (slang, derogatory) A small penis.
noun
- any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
- small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
- slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
- The New Zealand fish Odax pullus, also known as greenbone.
- A rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus, an eel-like fish found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of the North Atlantic.
- (informal) A sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria).
- Perciform fish of the family Stromateidae, including the genera Pampus, Peprilus and Stromateus.
noun
- A meal or dish made from this fish.
- (zoology) One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
- The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
- (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
- (Sri Lanka) canned fish, usually mackerel.
- a pale pinkish orange color
- flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
- any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
adj
verb
noun
noun
verb
noun
- A scallop.
- A thin slice of meat, especially veal, normally shallow-fried.
- edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
verb
prefix
noun
- valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
- commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
- Those fish and any other fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.
- A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.
- Fish in the family Clupeidae.
noun
- Scyliorhinus stellaris (nursehound), a shark known as rock salmon when used in cuisine
- Sebastes, mainly of the North Pacific
- Certain fish of genus Scorpaena, such as Madeira rockfish (Scorpaena maderensis), a common Mediterranean species
- Hexagrammos, a genus of greenling from the North Pacific
- (Internet slang, derogatory, ethnic slur, US) A black person who does not know how to swim.
- A long-spined bullhead (Taurulus bubalis)
- Myliobatis goodei (southern eagle ray)
- A fish in the family Sebastidae, marine fishes that inhabit oceans around the world
- A logperch (Percina caprodes), also known as common logperch or log perch
- Acanthoclinus, a genus of fish from New Zealand
- Salvelinus, a genus of fish in the salmon family
- A stonefishes (genus Synanceia), venomous fishes from the Indo-Pacific
- Certain groupers, in the subfamily Epinephelinae
- Hypoplectrodes, a genus of fish in the family Serranidae
- A striped bass (Morone saxatilis), a species of fish from North America
- marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone
- marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America
- the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks
noun
- Edible flesh of this fish.
- A small salmon with red flesh, Oncorhynchus nerka, found in the coastal waters of the northern Pacific.
- fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers
- small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
noun
- any of several marine food fishes related to cod
- the lean flesh of a fish similar to cod
- (Now chiefly dialectal) A kind of weapon; a pike.
- (Now chiefly dialectal) A hook; a pot-hook.
- One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.
- (Now chiefly dialectal) (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.
- A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
noun
- spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes
- support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird)
- a linear measure of 16.5 feet
- any of numerous fishes of America and Europe
- any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes
- an elevated place serving as a seat
- a square rod of land
- (textiles) A frame used to examine cloth.
- A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.
- (Ghana) Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus
- (figuratively) A position that is overly elevated or haughty.
- Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
- (theater) A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.
- (Australia) Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus
- (South Africa) Acanthopagrus berda
- (figuratively) A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
- Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
- A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
- (UK) Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus
- A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.
- A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
- (US) Kyphosus azureus
verb
- sit, as on a branch
- cause to perch or sit
- to come to rest, settle
- (intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.
- (transitive, intransitive, textiles) To inspect cloth using a perch.
- (transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
- (intransitive) To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost.
- (intransitive) To sit upon the edge of something.
noun
- important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks
- New Zealand eel
- any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
- tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica
- Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
- The fruit of the cactus.
- The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
- The edible flesh of the tuna.
noun
noun
- seafood served in a scallop shell
- a dish in the form of a scallop shell
- A meal, especially a seafood dish, served in an actual scallop shell or a dish (container) shaped like a shell.
- A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled.
- A scallop shell or a dish shaped like one, especially when used to serve the aforementioned food.
noun
- Such fish prepared as food.
- Any of several small fish, mostly in families Atherinidae and Atherinopsidae, both in order Atheriniformes, that are characterized by bright, silvery scales.
- (British) The upper side of a round of beef.
- (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, informal) Corned beef made with this type of meat.
- small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States
noun
- A scombroid fish.
- (uncountable) A relatively low-quality grade of Spanish saffron.
- A rugged range of mountains.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Sierra from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- a Spanish mackerel of western North America
- a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline)
noun
- Any fish in the family Scatophagidae.
- (music, jazz) Scat singing.
- (slang, pornography) Coprophilia, scatophilia.
- A tax; tribute.
- (biology) Animal excrement; droppings, dung.
- (slang) Heroin.
- (uncommon) A blow; a hit, an impact.
- (UK, dialect) A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.
- (Shetland) A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
- singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
intj
verb
noun
- any of various fishes of the family Scombridae
- A true mackerel, any fish of tribe Scombrini (Scomber spp., Rastrelliger spp.)
- flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish
- Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled,
- Certain other similar small fish in families Carangidae, Gempylidae, and Hexagrammidae.
- Typically Scomber scombrus in the British isles.
- (chiefly attributive, of clouds, the sky, etc) A regular pattern, similar to fish scales, of undulating small clouds with sky visible between them.
noun
- edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
- (by extension) Food from any aquatic source, including not only salt water but also fresh water.
- Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.
noun
- Any of certain saltwater sciaenid (Sciaenidae) fishes.
- (metallurgy) Residual ore that failed to melt during a smelting process.
- Mylopharodon conocephalus of fresh waters in California.
- One who is practical or hardheaded.
- Any of several weeds in or formerly classified in the genus Centaurea, especially Russian knapweed (Acroptilon repens).
- A brown diving duck, Aythya australis, native to Australia.
- (historical) A Scottish billon coin circulated in the reigns of Mary and James VI.
noun
- flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
- large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite
- (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
- Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots
- any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
- a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
- (US) A small bluefish.
- A snap beetle (family Elateridae).
- One who, or that which, snaps.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The fish Chrysophrys auratus, especially an adult of the species.
- The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).
- (US) Small, paper-wrapped item containing a minute quantity of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, which explodes noisily when thrown onto a hard surface.
- (slang, entertainment) A punchline.
- (US) Any of the family Lutjanidae of percoid fishes, especially the red snapper.
- (slang) The vulva.
- (Ireland, slang) A (human) baby.
- (historical) A telegraphic device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder.
- (US, informal) The snapping turtle.
- (American football) The player who snaps the ball to start the play.
- (slang) One who takes snaps; a photographer.
- (US, colloquial) A string bean.
- A stumble, a trip.
- (US politics, historical) A supporter of Senator Hill's premature scheduling of the Democratic National Committee convention of 1892.
- An error, a blunder, especially a moral slip-up.
verb
noun
noun
noun
- any market fish — edible saltwater fish or shellfish — except herring
- silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
- flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
- A beluga (both the sturgeon and the whale).
- Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.
- (cooking, fishing) Any of several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod, whiting, and haddock, as opposed to the oily or pelagic fishes.
- Any of several other fish, such as whiting (Merlangius merlangus) or menhaden (Brevoortia spp. and Ethmidium spp.).
- A lesser queenfish (Scomberoides lysan)
verb
noun
- any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas
- flesh of mostly Pacific food fishes of the genus Sarda of the family Scombridae; related to but smaller than tuna
- fish whose flesh is dried and flaked for Japanese cookery; may be same species as skipjack tuna
- A large tropical fish of species Katsuwonus pelamis (skipjack tuna), allied to the tunny.
- The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern United States and the West Indies.
- The cobia or crab eater (Rachycentron canadum), an edible fish of warm waters globally.
- Any of various marine fish of the genus Sarda that are related to and resemble the tuna, but smaller.
noun
- any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
- small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
- slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
- The New Zealand fish Odax pullus, also known as greenbone.
- A rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus, an eel-like fish found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of the North Atlantic.
- (informal) A sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria).
- Perciform fish of the family Stromateidae, including the genera Pampus, Peprilus and Stromateus.
noun
- A meal or dish made from this fish.
- (zoology) One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
- The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
- (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
- (Sri Lanka) canned fish, usually mackerel.
- a pale pinkish orange color
- flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
- any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
adj
verb
noun
noun
verb
noun
- A scallop.
- A thin slice of meat, especially veal, normally shallow-fried.
- edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
verb
noun
- valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
- commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
- Those fish and any other fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.
- A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.
- Fish in the family Clupeidae.
noun
- Scyliorhinus stellaris (nursehound), a shark known as rock salmon when used in cuisine
- Sebastes, mainly of the North Pacific
- Certain fish of genus Scorpaena, such as Madeira rockfish (Scorpaena maderensis), a common Mediterranean species
- Hexagrammos, a genus of greenling from the North Pacific
- (Internet slang, derogatory, ethnic slur, US) A black person who does not know how to swim.
- A long-spined bullhead (Taurulus bubalis)
- Myliobatis goodei (southern eagle ray)
- A fish in the family Sebastidae, marine fishes that inhabit oceans around the world
- A logperch (Percina caprodes), also known as common logperch or log perch
- Acanthoclinus, a genus of fish from New Zealand
- Salvelinus, a genus of fish in the salmon family
- A stonefishes (genus Synanceia), venomous fishes from the Indo-Pacific
- Certain groupers, in the subfamily Epinephelinae
- Hypoplectrodes, a genus of fish in the family Serranidae
- A striped bass (Morone saxatilis), a species of fish from North America
- marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone
- marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America
- the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks
noun
- Edible flesh of this fish.
- A small salmon with red flesh, Oncorhynchus nerka, found in the coastal waters of the northern Pacific.
- fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers
- small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
noun
- any of several marine food fishes related to cod
- the lean flesh of a fish similar to cod
- (Now chiefly dialectal) A kind of weapon; a pike.
- (Now chiefly dialectal) A hook; a pot-hook.
- One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.
- (Now chiefly dialectal) (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.
- A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
noun
- spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes
- support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird)
- a linear measure of 16.5 feet
- any of numerous fishes of America and Europe
- any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes
- an elevated place serving as a seat
- a square rod of land
- (textiles) A frame used to examine cloth.
- A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.
- (Ghana) Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus
- (figuratively) A position that is overly elevated or haughty.
- Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
- (theater) A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.
- (Australia) Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus
- (South Africa) Acanthopagrus berda
- (figuratively) A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
- Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
- A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
- (UK) Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus
- A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.
- A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
- (US) Kyphosus azureus
verb
- sit, as on a branch
- cause to perch or sit
- to come to rest, settle
- (intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.
- (transitive, intransitive, textiles) To inspect cloth using a perch.
- (transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
- (intransitive) To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost.
- (intransitive) To sit upon the edge of something.
noun
- important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks
- New Zealand eel
- any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
- tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica
- Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
- The fruit of the cactus.
- The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
- The edible flesh of the tuna.
noun
verb
- fish for scallops
- (intransitive) To harvest scallops
- shape or cut in scallops
- decorate an edge with scallops
- form scallops in
- bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top
- To create or form an edge in the shape of a crescent or multiple crescents.
- (transitive) To bake in a casserole (gratin), originally in a scallop shell; especially used in form scalloped
noun
- 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
- edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
- A dish shaped like a scallop shell.
- (cooking) A fillet of meat, escalope.
- One of a series of curves, forming an edge similar to a scallop shell, especially in knitting and crochet.
- (cooking, UK, regional, rare) A sautéed potato (a shallow-fried round potato slice).
- Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Pectinoidea.
- (cooking, UK, Ireland, Australia, regional) A battered and deep-fried round potato slice.
verb
noun
- edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
- Alternative spelling of scallop.
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adj
noun
- (figurative) Someone packed or crammed into a small space.
- Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Sardina pilchardus, syn. Clupea pilchardus). The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the Atlantic herring and of the menhaden.
- Dark-brown sard.
- small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
- small fatty fish usually canned
- any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
- a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
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noun
- shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible
- any of various edible decapod crustaceans
- (Australia, colloquial, derogatory) Synonym of butterface: A woman with an attractive body but an unattractive face.
- (Australia, slang) A fool, an idiot.
- (Commonwealth) A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp.
- Alternative form of porn.
- A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
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noun
- 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
- (uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.
- (slang, uncommon) Synonym of butterface
- Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.
- (slang) A small, puny or unimportant person.
- (slang, derogatory) A small penis.
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