Meaning

6 senses

  1. Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Pectinoidea.

    Jakobsmuschel, Pilgermuschel

    гребешо́кgrebešók

  2. One of a series of curves, forming an edge similar to a scallop shell, especially in knitting and crochet.

  3. A fillet of meat, escalope.

  4. (Australia, Ireland, UK, regional)A battered and deep-fried round potato slice.

    thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled

  5. (UK, rare, regional)A sautéed potato (a shallow-fried round potato slice).

  6. A dish shaped like a scallop shell.

Examples

11 sentences

  1. I ordered steak with scalloped potatoes.

    Я замовила стейк із картопляним гратеном. — deniko

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  2. Tom was taken to the emergency room after eating bad scallops.

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  3. I love to eat scallops.

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  4. Scallops are on sale today.

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  5. Shrimp and scallop pasta tastes so good.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
mollusc of the order Pectinoidea:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
mollusc of the order Pectinoidea:

Origin

From Old French escalope (“shell”). Doublet of escalope. Related to scale and shell.

From Old French escalope (“shell”). Doublet of escalope. Related to scale and shell.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: scallops

Synonyms

14 synonyms
sea scalloppotato cakepotato scallopfrittersmackfairy chipscolloppotato fritter
Close in meaning
  • edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions:scollopescallop
  • edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces:scollopescallop
  • one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.):crenationcrenaturecrenelcrenelle
  • thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled:cutletscollopescallop

Word family

10 related words
Derivedflame scalloppilgrim's scallopqueen scallopscalloperscallop mothscallop shellscallop squashscallop theoremscallopwingscallopwise

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
scaldscaleA2scalpscalpel

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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