scallop

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What you are calling a scallop, I describe as a "skirt," but it may have an official name.

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  1. noun Any of various free-swimming marine mollusks of the family Pectinidae, having fan-shaped bivalve shells with a radiating fluted pattern.
  2. noun The edible adductor muscle of this mollusk.
  3. noun A shell of this mollusk, or a dish in a similar shape, used for baking and serving seafood.
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  • Jamie's perfectly cooked scallop, and Ariane's cauliflower and beef. —  Blog updates
  • On our second visit, the sushi (from left, freshwater eel, red-tip clam, scallop, mackerel, belly tuna, snapper and yellowfin tuna) varied in quality from piece to piece. —  Austin360 - XL Headlines
  • What you are calling a scallop, I describe as a "skirt," but it may have an official name. —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • A makimono roll of scallop, cucumber, and salt-cured plum capped with tobiko fish roe served with ume plum paste pooled in white truffle oil. —  Miami New Times | Complete Issue
  • A diver scallop is so pristine, you're willing to overlook other transgressions.
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  1. Middle English scalop, from Old French escalope, shell, of Germanic origin.

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  1. Also scollop, and formerly scollup, early modern English scaloppe (also in more technical use escallop, escalop); from Middle English scalop, skalop, from Old French escalope, a shell, from Middle Dutch schelpe, Dutch schelp = Low German schelpe, schulpe, a shell, especially a scallop-shell: see scalp.
  2. Also scollop (also in more technical use escallop); from scallop, n.
 

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/ˈskæləp/
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