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SCOLLOP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does scollop mean?
• SCOLLOP (noun)
The noun SCOLLOP 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: SCOLLOP used as a noun is uncommon.
• SCOLLOP (verb)
The verb SCOLLOP has 3 senses:
Familiarity information: SCOLLOP used as a verb is uncommon.
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 ("scollop" 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 "scollop"):
sea scallop (muscle of large deep-water scallops)
bay scallop (muscle of small choice shallow-water scallops)
Holonyms ("scollop" 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)
Derivation:
scollop (fish for scallops)
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 ("scollop" is a kind of...):
piece; slice (a serving that has been cut from a larger portion)
Derivation:
scollop (fish for scallops)
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 ("scollop" 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 "scollop"):
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 "scollop"):
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 ("scollop" is a member of...):
family Pectinidae; Pectinidae (scallops)
Derivation:
scollop (fish for scallops)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: scolloped
Past participle: scolloped
-ing form: scolloping
Sense 1
Meaning:
Form scallops in
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
scallop; scollop
Context example:
scallop the meat
Hypernyms (to "scollop" is one way to...):
core out; hollow; hollow out (remove the interior of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
In the summer they like to go out and scollop
Sense 2
Meaning:
Fish for scallops
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Synonyms:
scallop; scollop
Hypernyms (to "scollop" is one way to...):
fish (catch or try to catch fish or shellfish)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
scollop (edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions)
scollop (thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled)
scollop (edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Shape or cut in scallops
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
scallop; scollop
Context example:
scallop the hem of the dress
Hypernyms (to "scollop" is one way to...):
form; shape (give shape or form to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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