scallop


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Synonyms for scallop

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

edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells

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

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edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions

decorate an edge with scallops

bake in a sauce, milk, etc

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form scallops in

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fish for scallops

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shape or cut in scallops

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I say to you again, how of the clams and scallops?"
Clams and scallops! Ask me to your table to partake of the dainty of the town, and when I come a barren welcome and a bare board!
"The clams and scallops shall be ready within the hour," the mayor answered.
He met with more adventures than can be told, and narrowly escaped being caught by the Basking Shark, and the Spotted Shark, and the Hammerhead, and he met all the untrustworthy ruffians that loaf up and down the seas, and the heavy polite fish, and the scarlet spotted scallops that are moored in one place for hundreds of years, and grow very proud of it; but he never met Sea Cow, and he never found an island that he could fancy.
She did not look round, but the high scalloped collar, that reached her little pink ear, trembled faintly.
The farther end of the room was completely filled by a four-post bedstead, with a scalloped valance for decoration.
I have in my mind's eye the western, indented with deep bays, the bolder northern, and the beautifully scalloped southern shore, where successive capes overlap each other and suggest unexplored coves between.
Raskolnikov turned to the wall where in the dirty, yellow paper he picked out one clumsy, white flower with brown lines on it and began examining how many petals there were in it, how many scallops in the petals and how many lines on them.
The trick to creating tasty scallop dishes is to choose "dry" scallops -- these aren't treated with phosphates, which can give them an off-taste and make them stringy when cooked.
The successful implementation of this strategy is exemplified by the management of the Atlantic sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) in the United States.
That said, I thought I'd take the opportunity to share this delicious and simple seared scallop dish that has graced our Christmas table over the years.
It's hard to see what's so special about a scallop. It looks a lot like a clam, mussel or any other bivalve.
French vessels rammed British scallop dredgers on Tuesday off the coast of Normandy in an attack English fisherman Ciaran Cardell described as like "a scene out of Vietnam".