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seafood

[ see-food ]

noun

  1. any fish or shellfish from the sea used for food.


seafood

/ ˈsiːˌfuːd /

noun

  1. edible saltwater fish or shellfish
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of seafood1

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40
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Example Sentences

If someone served me this sandwich at a waterside seafood shack on a fine day, I wouldn’t complain.

In October 2020, the FDA issued a request for information on the labeling of cell-cultured seafoods, but no date has been set for the announcement of regulatory details.

Sure, they could have sent seafood out in boxes, but as Cashion put it this month, “Johnny’s is an experience,” and she wasn’t inclined to deliver less than the “total package.”

Eventually, the government permitted a small team to visit the city, but prevented them from visiting hospitals or the seafood market where the outbreak was suspected to have originated.

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Seaweed and seafood, which are more common in coastal diets, also contain enough iodine to make a nutritional difference.

Two men stepped out and entered a modest seafood restaurant called Mario's Fresh Shellfish.

El Cristo: You come to El Cristo to eat the seafood - fish empanadas, fish croquetas, grilled fish, you name it, they got it.

The property belonged to an old woman whose chain of seafood restaurants was popular with men in the government.

For seafood try Clamman in Southhampton, proudly peddling tuna, bass, scallops, and squid all caught by local fishermen.

Here, chefs serve trout and seafood brought from the neighboring state of Veracruz.

Due to lack of refrigeration the lighthouse diet became monotonous, although seafood was a help.

I expected to breakfast at home; now we will get some seafood.'

From the facts that I did have, something smelled of overripe seafood.

They have attempted to supply the community with seafood, but there are not enough sailing vessels.

Yet most of this part of the river is still beautiful and continues to yield good harvests of seafood.

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