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Seafood

Definition: Seafood

Seafood

Noun

1. Edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definition: Seafood

DomainDefinition

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Seafood

(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:

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: 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.
EntrySourceExpressionField
SeaFICEnglishSeafood Industry CouncilFood & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Seafood

Synonym: Sea food. (additional references)

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Crosswords: Seafood

English words defined with "seafood": coquillefondu, fondueQuicheseafood Newburg, stuffed mushroomtartar sauce, tartare sauce, tempura, teriyaki. (references)
Specialty definitions using "seafood": BICO ReportCenter for Food Safety and Applied Nutritiondisplay carverexhibition carverfood scientis, FOOD TECHNOLOGIST, Food-borne illnessesINSPECTOR, AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIESListeriameat carverNational Marine Fisheries Service, Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1991PANTRY GOODS MAKER. (references)

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Modern Usage: Seafood

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Seafood

DomainTitle

References

  • Fjord Seafood: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Seafood Products in Portugal: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

  • French Seafood Industry in France: A Strategic Entry Report, 1998 (reference)

  • Shells Seafood Restaurants, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Trang Seafood Products Public Co. Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Charlie Trotter's Seafood (reference)

  • Invitation to Mediterranean Cooking: 150 Vegetarian and Seafood Recipes (reference)

  • Seafood Lover's Almanac (reference)

  • The Essential Seafood Cookbook (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Cooking Seafood (reference)

  • Deliciously Simple Vol.3: Seafood (reference)

  • Master Chef Series of Fish & Seafood Cooking: 3-Tape Collector Set (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Seafood

Photos:
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Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Seafood

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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.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Seafood
 

"Necora" by Ibon San Martin
Commentary: "Necora, a seafood ."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Seafood

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Seafood

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)97.63%16524,305
Noun (proper)2.37%4175,879
                    Total100.00%169N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Seafood

CountryNameCountryName
Norway

Fjord Seafood

Thailand

Trang Seafood Products Public Co. Ltd.

USA

Shells Seafood Restaurants, Inc.

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Seafood

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Seafood

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Seafood

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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Seafood

Derivations

Words beginning with "seafood": seafoods. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: Seafood

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Names: Company Usage
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Abbreviations
16. Acronyms
17. Derivations
18. Anagrams
19. Bibliography


  

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