Seafood
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈsiːfuːd/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Seafood is a noun meaning (by extension) Food from any aquatic source, including not only salt water but also fresh water.
Meaning
(by extension) Food from any aquatic source, including not only salt water but also fresh water.
More Meanings
- Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.
Example Sentences
For quotations using this term, see Citations:seafood.
But most of all, they were jealous because these strangers feasted daily on great turtle, albacore and sail-fish, the sweetest of all seafoods.
Write about radiation levels in seafood, “safe” pollution limits set by pollutors, government policy auctioned for campaign donations and Seaboard's ex juris police force, and you'll raise the temperature of public awareness, fractionally, towards its ignition point.
Word Forms
- seafoods
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include shellfish, fish, mollusc, crabs, aquaculture, fruit.
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