seafood

noun — 2 senses

seafood

noun

/ˈsiːfuːd/

Etymology From sea + food.

1

Usually Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.

  • But most of all, they were jealous because these strangers feasted daily on great turtle, albacore and sail-fish, the sweetest of all seafoods.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 127:
  • 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.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN:
2

Broadly, Usually Food from any aquatic source, including not only salt water but also fresh water.

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:seafood.
Derived terms
nonseafood, seafood boil, seafooder, seafood fork, seafoodie, seafood queen, seafoody, seagan

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