mussel

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English

Cooked mussels

Etymology

From Latin mūsculus (“mussel or muscle”), literally "little mouse".

Pronunciation

Noun

mussel (plural mussels)

  1. A small edible bivalve shellfish of the families Unionidae (fresh water mussels) and Mytilidae (salt water mussels).

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