mussel

English

Cooked mussels (Mytilus edulis)

Mussels in beer broth at a restaurant in Singapore

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

mussel (plural mussels)

Any of several groups of bivalve shellfish with elongated, asymmetrical shells
1. fresh water mussels, usually edible, of the order Unionida in subclass Palaeoheterodonta.
2. salt water mussels, usually edible, of the order Mytilida in subclass Pteriomorpha.
3. Certain other bivalves of somewhat similar appearance, such as the zebra mussel and quagga mussel of the family Dreissenidae in subclass Heterodonta.

terms derived from mussel (noun)

any small edible bivalve shellfish — See also translations at clam,‎ oyster,‎ mollusc

Abenaki: als
Afrikaans: mossel
Arabic:
Moroccan Arabic: بو زْروڭ‎‎ m (bu zrug)
Armenian: միդիա (midia)
Azerbaijani: midye
Belarusian: мі́дыя f (mídyja)
Bulgarian: мида (bg) f (mida)
Catalan: musclo (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 青口 (ceng¹ hau²)

Mandarin: 淡菜 (zh) (dàncài), 殼菜 (zh), 壳菜 (zh) (qiàocài), 貽貝 (zh), 贻贝 (zh) (yíbèi), 青口 (zh) (qīngkǒu)
Czech: slávka (cs) f
Danish: musling (da) c
Dutch: mossel (nl) f
Estonian: jõekarp
Ewe: aɖɔɖi n
Finnish: simpukka (fi)
French: moule (fr) f
Galician: mexillón (gl) m
Georgian: ორკარედი ნიჟარა (orḳaredi nižara)
German: Muschel (de) f, Miesmuschel (de) f
Greek: μύδι (el) n (mýdi)
Greenlandic: uiloq
Hungarian: szívkagyló (hu), kagyló (hu)
Irish: diúilicín m
Italian: cozza (it) f, mitilo (it) m, muscolo (it) m, peocio m, dattero nero m, poverazza f

freshwater mussel

saltwater mussel

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