Terminology record for mussel
RECORD
| Record No.: | 200/en/200 |
| Author: | ELAD D. F. |
| Creation date: | |
| Last updated: | 2022-11-28 00:00:00 |
| 🇫🇷 FRENCH | ||||||||||
| DOMAINE |
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| VEDETTE | * Moule statut : recommandé
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| PARTIE DU DISCOURS | nom féminin | |||||||||
| ÉTYMOLOGIE | Moule | |||||||||
| SOURCE DE L'ETYMOLOGIE |
Grand Robert de la langue française, en 6 volumes version 2.0 (2005). Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). | |||||||||
| DÉFINITION |
Mollusque lamellibranche comestible, à valves renflées et oblongues, noir bleuté, sans charnière, qui vit fixé sur des surfaces immergées | |||||||||
| PLURIEL | Moules ; | |||||||||
| SOURCE DE DÉFINITION | Fishterm | |||||||||
| 🇬🇧 ENGLISH | ||||||||||
| SUBJECT FIELD |
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| TERM | * Mussel status: recommended
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| PART OF SPEECH | noun | |||||||||
| PLURAL | Mussels ; | |||||||||
| ETYMOLOGY | Old English mus(c)le, superseded by forms from Middle Low German mussel, Middle Dutch mosscele; ultimately from late Latin muscula, from Latin musculus, diminutive of mus ‘mouse’ (some muscles being thought to be mouse-like in form). | |||||||||
| ETYMOLOGY SOURCE |
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). | |||||||||
| DEFINITION |
a small shellfish of the familly Mytilidae that can be eaten, with a black asymmetrical shell in two parts. | |||||||||
| DEFINITION SOURCE |
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). | |||||||||
