SEAFOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seafood mean? 

• SEAFOOD (noun)
  The noun SEAFOOD has 1 sense:

1. edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc

  Familiarity information: SEAFOOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEAFOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("seafood" is a kind of...):

food; solid food (any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seafood"):

saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

freshwater fish (flesh of fish from fresh water used as food)

calamari; calamary; squid ((Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food)

octopus (tentacles of octopus prepared as food)

periwinkle; winkle (small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked)

whelk (large marine snail much used as food in Europe)

shellfish (meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean))

prawn; shrimp (any of various edible decapod crustaceans)

whitefish (any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring)

hard roe; roe (fish eggs or egg-filled ovary; having a grainy texture)

milt; soft roe (fish sperm or sperm-filled reproductive gland; having a creamy texture)

 Context examples 

It occurs in areas in which the soil lacks iodine compounds or there is low seafood consumption.

(Endemic Goiter, NCI Thesaurus)

Harmful algae blooms also pose a threat to human health when the toxins accumulate in seafood.

(Scientists discover genetic basis for how harmful algae blooms become toxic, National Science Foundation)

This is important because sharks are top predators that keep the marine ecosystem in check, helping to sustain the food web that supports millions of people worldwide who rely on seafood sustenance.

(New way to save endangered sharks – and our seafood, SciDev.Net)

Blood or tissue levels of several seafood- and plant-derived omega-3s were measured in each study.

(Omega-3s linked with lower risk of fatal heart attacks, NIH)

The findings revealed a diet based on the consumption of terrestrial proteins—plants, animal proteins, and dairy products—where seafood was absent.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

Not eating enough nuts and seeds (8.5%), seafood omega-3 fats (7.8%), vegetables (7.6%), fruits (7.5%), whole grains (5.9%), or polyunsaturated fats (2.3%) also increased risk of death compared with people who had an optimal intake of these foods/nutrients.

(How dietary factors influence disease risk, NIH)

It is found in seafood, iodized salt, dairy products, and some fruits and vegetables.

(Iodine deficiency may reduce pregnancy chances, National Institutes of Health)

Add another item to the ever-growing list of the dangerous impacts of climate change: Warming oceans are leading to an increase of the harmful neurotoxicant methylmercury in popular seafood, including cod, Atlantic bluefin tuna and swordfish, according to research led by researchers at Harvard University.

(Mercury levels in fish are on the rise, National Science Foundation)

To reduce your risk: • Use precooked and ready-to-eat foods as soon as you can • Avoid raw milk and raw milk products • Heat ready-to-eat foods and leftovers until they are steaming hot • Wash fresh fruits and vegetables • Avoid rare meat and refrigerated smoked seafood

(Listeria Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

By removing a top predator, their prey can burgeon and compromise the food chain all the way down, affecting seafood consumed by people, the study says.

(New way to save endangered sharks – and our seafood, SciDev.Net)