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Definition: Seafood |
SeafoodNoun1. Edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Marine fish and shellfish used as food or suitable for food. (Webster, 3d ed) shellfish and fish products are more specific types of seafood. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Seafood is food derived from aquatic animals, such as fish, mollusks, and crustaceans. These animals provide protein in many diets around the world. The harvesting of seafood is called fishing.It is also a term used for the aquatic ingredients i.e. the fish, in such foods.
The term is not restricted to "sea" creatures, but may include fresh-water animals as well. The plants of the sea are often also edible, including sea lettuce, nori, which is a type of seaweed, and most simple algae, but they are not considered seafood as such. See also aquaculture, mariculture Dishes -see Cooking and the Wikipedia Cookbook
Types of seafood:
- Fish fingers usually made of Cod or Haddock
- Fried squid
- Kipper
- Smoked salmon
- Streamed fish
- Fish
- Bass
- Blowfish
- Cod
- Eel
- Flounder
- Haddock
- Halibut
- Mahi Mahi
- Monkfish
- pike
- Salmon
- Shark
- Snapper
- Sole
- Swordfish
- Tilefish
- Trout
- Tuna
- White Fish
- Whitefish
- Shellfish
- Crustaceans
- Crab
- Crayfish
- Lobster
- Shrimp
- Mollusks
- Abalone
- Clam
- Mussel
- Octopus
- Oyster
- Squid
- Scallop
- Miscellaneous seafood
- Caviar (sturgeon roe)
- Uni (sea urchin roe)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Seafood."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| SeaFIC | English | Seafood Industry Council | Food & Agriculture |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: SeafoodSynonym: Sea food. (additional references) |
Crosswords: Seafood |
| English words defined with "seafood": coquille ♦ fondu, fondue ♦ Quiche ♦ seafood Newburg, stuffed mushroom ♦ tartar sauce, tartare sauce, tempura, teriyaki. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "seafood": BICO Report ♦ Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition ♦ display carver ♦ exhibition carver ♦ food scientis, FOOD TECHNOLOGIST, Food-borne illnesses ♦ INSPECTOR, AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES ♦ Listeria ♦ meat carver ♦ National Marine Fisheries Service, Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1991 ♦ PANTRY GOODS MAKER. (references) |
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Screenplays | We drove around until three in the morning looking for another open all-you-can-eat seafood restaurant (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I bought seafood today - bloody everything (Once Were Warriors; writing credit: Riwia Brown; Alan Duff) | |
Clever | A seafood diet is the best--whenever you see food, eat it. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Seafood Odyssey (1999) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | The Seafood Industry Museum. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | The Co-op Seafood Market and dock. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
![]() | The F/V ATLANTIC TRAVELER squid rigged at the Co-op Seafood Retail Market. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | The F/V JAIME MAE rigged for fluke at the Co-op Seafood dock. Credit: Fisheries. |
![]() | Mending fish nets at the Co-op Seafood dock. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | Piles of fishnets, floats, and other gear at the Co-op Seafood dock. Credit: Fisheries. |
![]() | Fish nets, floats, and fishing boats at Co-op Seafood dock. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | Supermarket Fresh packaged fish in the seafood section of the Mapledale Giant in Dale City, VA. . Credit: USDA. |
![]() | Fish, seafood section of Asian Market. Credit: USDA. | ![]() | Barbara Piel (l) and Rose Davis prepare fish for a customer in the seafood section of Giant Foods i Dumfries, VA. Credit: USDA. |
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| "Necora" by Ibon San Martin Commentary: "Necora, a seafood ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Do not bring perishable seafood back to the United States. (references) | |
Seafood may become contaminated during harvest or through processing. (references) | ||
Especially risky foods include raw vegetables, raw meat, and raw seafood. (references) | ||
Business | There is interest in theme restaurants with Mexican, pasta, and seafood motifs. (references) | |
Cargo handled at Songkhla port includes mainly frozen seafood, rubber, canned foods, and latex products. (references) | ||
With regard to product categories, frozen seafood accounts for approximately one-third of the total market. (references) | ||
Economic History | Austria | Consumption of seafood is low, but rising. (references) |
Spain | No major import barriers exist for seafood products. (references) | |
Belize | Natural resources: Arable land, timber, seafood, minerals. (references) | |
Political Economy | Philippines | The main agricultural and resource-based exports include coconut oil, bananas, fresh and preserved seafood, and copper. (references) |
VENEZUELA | Exporters of selected agricultural products, including coffee, cocoa, some fruits and certain seafood products, receive a tax credit equal to 10 percent of the export's FOB value. (references) | |
BANGLADESH | Reduced interest rates for lending to priority sectors like infrastructure, information technology, oil and gas, and agriculture-based industries were proposed in the budget, but assistance to several key sectors, primarily garments and frozen seafood, fell short of the business community's expectations. (references) | |
Trade | Guyana | There are restrictions on exporting wildlife, seafood, and gold. (references) |
Yemen | The Ministry of Fish Wealth limits the export of certain categories of seafood products. (references) | |
El Salvador | F. For certain seafood exports, a statement that El Salvador is a certified user of Turtle Excluder Devices. (references) | |
Travel | Panama | Several specialize in seafood. (references) |
Guyana | Chicken, beef and excellent seafood are available. (references) | |
Costa Rica | Seafood is perfectly safe when properly cooked but it should never be eaten raw. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Seafood" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.63% of the time. "Seafood" is used about 169 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.63% | 165 | 24,305 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.37% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 169 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Norway | Fjord Seafood | Thailand | Trang Seafood Products Public Co. Ltd. |
| USA | Shells Seafood Restaurants, Inc. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "seafood": seafood gumbo ♦ seafood Newburg ♦ seafood restaurant ♦ seafood sauce. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "seafood": seafood-gathering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
seafood | 1,817 | seafood cooking | 45 |
seafood recipe | 1,436 | seafood chowder | 39 |
fish and seafood | 326 | seafood pasta | 38 |
legal seafood | 299 | seafood retail | 37 |
fresh seafood | 262 | seafood festival | 37 |
seafood restaurant | 252 | kitchen pappadeaux seafood | 36 |
gourmet seafood | 161 | legal seafood restaurant | 35 |
seafood online | 155 | belmar festival seafood | 34 |
seafood salad | 108 | oceanaire room seafood | 33 |
seafood market | 94 | camerons seafood | 33 |
phillips seafood | 88 | seafood buffet | 31 |
seafood gumbo | 83 | phillips seafood restaurant | 31 |
landrys seafood | 78 | seafood picture | 30 |
seafood salad recipe | 75 | seafood boil | 29 |
mail order seafood | 75 | seafood importer | 29 |
scotts seafood | 64 | seafood distributor | 28 |
seafood wholesale | 59 | pasta salad seafood | 28 |
seafood pasta recipe | 53 | seafood chowder recipe | 28 |
recipe for seafood gumbo | 51 | seafood casserole | 27 |
seafood lasagna | 48 | seafood allergy | 27 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "seafood"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | طعام البحر (shellfish). (various references) | |
Asturian | mariscu. (various references) | |
Chinese | 海鲜, 海鮮 . (various references) | |
Czech | mořské ryby, mořské potraviny. (various references) | |
Danish | faglært arbejdskraft(m/k)til tilberedelse af fisk,skal-og bløddyr (fish processor(m/f), sea food processor, seafood processor). (various references) | |
Dutch | vakkracht voor de verwerking van vis en week-,schaal-en schelpdieren(m/v) (fish processor(m/f), sea food processor, seafood processor). (various references) | |
Farsi | غذاهای مرکب ازجانوران دریاءی . (various references) | |
French | agent de traitement de poissons et fruits de mer(h/f) (sea food processor, seafood processor). (various references) | |
German | Meeresfrüchte (shore dinner). (various references) | |
Greek | θαλασσινά (shellfish). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tengeri ételek étterme (seafood restaurant). (various references) | |
Indonesian | makanan laut. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | imaqmiutat. (various references) | |
Italian | frutti del mare. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 魚貝類 (fish and shellfish, marine products), 魚介類 (fish and shellfish, marine products), 魚介 (marine products), 海の幸 , シーソー遊び (CD, CD-ROM, ceiling, ceiling lamp, centralized traffic control, coelacanth, compact disk, computerized typesetting system, consumer price index, consumer price survey, CPI, CPS, CTC, CTS, fielding practice, maximum amount to allot for a budget, Sea Beam, sea berth, Sea Chicken, sea utopia, seahorse, Sealab, seamless, seat, seat belt, seat cover, seat warmer, seed, seesaw, series, sheet, sheet feeder, sheet pile, skiers' greeting meaning "Good skiing!"). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎょかいるい (fish and shellfish, marine products), ぎょかい (marine products), うみのさち, シーフード . (various references) | |
Korean | 해산물. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eafoodsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | frutos do mar. (various references) | |
Russian | морепродукт. (various references) | |
Spanish | mariscos (shellfish). (various references) | |
Swedish | skaldjur (crustacean, shellfish). (various references) | |
Thai | อาหารทะเล. (various references) | |
Turkish | su ürünleri, deniz mahsulleri. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | їстівні молюски. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hải sản. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "seafood": seafoods. (additional references) | |
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"Seafood" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Meifod, seadoo, seaffold, seafod, searfood, sexfid, sexfoil, sialoid. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-o-o-s" | |
-2 letters: fades, fados, feods, foods. | |
-3 letters: ados, deaf, does, dose, fade, fado, fads, feds, feod, foes, food, oafs, odea, odes, sade, safe, soda, sofa. | |
-4 letters: ado, ads, doe, dos, eds, efs, fad, fas, fed, foe, oaf, ode, ods, oes, ose, sad, sae, sea, sod. | |
-5 letters: ad, ae, as, de, do, ed, ef, es, fa, od. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-o-o-s" | |
+1 letter: seafoods. | |
+2 letters: falsehood. | |
+3 letters: falsehoods, floodgates, foreshadow, proofreads. | |
+4 letters: defoliators, fatherhoods, flapdoodles, floodwaters, foreordains, foreshadows, godforsaken, splayfooted, waterfloods. | |
+5 letters: deflorations, defoliations, deformations, foolhardiest, footdraggers, foreshadowed, foreshadower, headforemost, proofreaders. | |
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