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ESCALLOP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does escallop mean?
• ESCALLOP (noun)
The noun ESCALLOP has 3 senses:
1. edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
2. thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
3. edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
Familiarity information: ESCALLOP used as a noun is uncommon.
• ESCALLOP (verb)
The verb ESCALLOP has 1 sense:
1. bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top
Familiarity information: ESCALLOP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("escallop" is a kind of...):
shellfish (meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "escallop"):
sea scallop (muscle of large deep-water scallops)
bay scallop (muscle of small choice shallow-water scallops)
Holonyms ("escallop" is a part of...):
escallop; scallop; scollop (edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
cutlet; escallop; scallop; scollop
Hypernyms ("escallop" is a kind of...):
piece; slice (a serving that has been cut from a larger portion)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("escallop" is a kind of...):
bivalve; lamellibranch; pelecypod (marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together)
Meronyms (parts of "escallop"):
escallop; scallop; scollop (edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "escallop"):
bay scallop; Pecten irradians (a small scallop inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats of the Atlantic coast of North America)
giant scallop; Pecten magellanicus; sea scallop (a large scallop inhabiting deep waters of the Atlantic coast of North America)
Holonyms ("escallop" is a member of...):
family Pectinidae; Pectinidae (scallops)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: escalloped
Past participle: escalloped
-ing form: escalloping
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
escallop; scallop
Hypernyms (to "escallop" is one way to...):
cook; fix; make; prepare; ready (prepare for eating by applying heat)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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