scallop

scallop is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobaeus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell. See Pecten, 2. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 15 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobaeus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell. See Pecten, 2.
2. noun. One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell.
3. noun. One of the shells of a scallop; also, a dish resembling a scallop shell.
4. transitive verb. To mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of circles, like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. See Scallop, n., 2.
5. noun. To bake in scallop shells or dishes; to prepare with crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. See Scalloped oysters, below.
6. noun. edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions

   Synonyms: escallop, scollop

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

   Synonyms: cutlet, escallop, scollop

8. noun. edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces

   Synonyms: escallop, scollop

9. noun. 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.)

   Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenel, crenelle

10. verb. shape or cut in scallops

    "scallop the hem of the dress"

    Synonyms: scollop

11. verb. fish for scallops

    Synonyms: scollop

12. verb. form scallops in

    "scallop the meat"

    Synonyms: scollop

13. verb. bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top

    Synonyms: escallop

14. verb. decorate an edge with scallops

    "the dress had a scalloped skirt"

Synonyms

escallop, scollop, cutlet, crenation, crenature, crenel, crenelle

Common word forms

scallops, scalloped, scalloper, scalloping

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