seafood

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seafood

  • /ˈsiːfuːd/

noun seafoods

  1. uncountable, 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.

    Similar: fruit of the sea

  2. broadly, uncountable, usually Food from any aquatic source, including not only salt water but also fresh water. For quotations using this term, see Citations:seafood.

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Closest in meaning: shellfish, fish, mollusc, crabs, aquaculture, fruit, ciguatera, mer, sea, marine, seagoing, more, clean, fruits, products, mollusks

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noun fish, shellfish, seaweed and other edible aquatic life

Españolmarisco
한국어해산물 haesanmul, 해물 haemul
日本語シーフード shīfūdo, 海鮮 kaisen, 魚介類 gyokairui, 海産物 kaisanbutsu, 海産食品 kaisan-shokuhin
中文海鮮 /海鲜 hǎixiān, 海產食品 /海产食品 hǎichǎn shípǐn, 魚鮮 /鱼鲜 yúxiān, 海味 hǎiwèi, 河鮮 /河鲜 héxiān, 湖鮮 /湖鲜 húxiān
हिन्दीसमुद्री खाद्य samudrī khādya
Kiswahilichakula cha baharini
Portuguêsfruto do mar, marisco, frutos do mar
Françaisfruits de mer
DeutschMeeresfrüchte, Meeresfrucht
Italianofrutti di mare, frutto di mare
Ελληνικάθαλασσινά thalassiná
Românăfructe de mare
Русскийморепроду́кты moreprodúkty
Tiếng Việthải sản, đồ biển
العربيةمَأْكُولَات بَحْرِيَّة maʔkūlāt baḥriyya, طَعَام الْبَحْر ṭaʕām al-baḥr
עבריתפֵּירוֹת יָם perót yam

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@misc{seafood_2026,
  title = {seafood},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/seafood},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}