Definition of Edible mussel

1. Noun. A mussel with a dark shell that lives attached to rocks.

Exact synonyms: Mytilus Edulis
Group relationships: Genus Mytilus, Mytilus
Generic synonyms: Marine Mussel, Mytilid
Terms within: Mussel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Edible Mussel

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edible-pod pea
edible-podded pea
edible asparagus
edible banana
edible bean
edible cockle
edible corn
edible dormice
edible dormouse
edible fat
edible frog
edible fruit
edible mussel (current term)
edible nut
edible sea urchin
edible seed
edible snail
edibleness
ediblenesses
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edictal
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edificant
edification
edifications

Literary usage of Edible mussel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"... by Mr Jameson was found to be infested with sporocysts containing larvae closely resembling those which act as pearl-nuclei in the edible mussel. ..."

2. Outlines of zoology by John Arthur Thomson (1895)
"... which secretes attaching threads, well seen in the edible mussel ... occur in all parts of the world, though only a few forms like the edible mussel ..."

3. Lippincott's Medical dictionary: A Complete Vocabulary of the Terms Used in by Ryland W. Greene, Joseph Thomas (1906)
""edible mussel," a shell-fish found in vast beds in the European seas. It is often poisonous,—sometimes producing, in those who eat it, all the symptoms of ..."

4. Bulletin by Natural History Society of New Brunswick (1887)
"Such occur in the Horse-mussel, edible mussel, and even in Quahogs, ... Those of the edible mussel have had some •commercial value in England. ..."

5. Elements of Zoology by Charles Frederick Holder, Joseph Bassett Holder (1885)
"The edible-mussel fisheries afford ... These are pond, river, and lake mussels, resembling in appearance the edible mussel, black without and pearly within, ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... of which the edible mussel, Mytilus edulis, is the representative; and the fresh-water Unionidae, of which the river mussel, Unió pictorum, ..."

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