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seafood

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈsiːfuːd//

Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.

noun

  1. 1

    Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.

    But most of all, they were jealous because these strangers feasted daily on great turtle, albacore and sail-fish, the sweetest of all seafoods.

    Write about radiation levels in seafood, “safe” pollution limits set by pollutors, government policy auctioned for campaign donations and Seaboard's ex juris police force, and you'll raise the temperature of public awareness, fractionally, towards its ignition point.

  2. 2

    Food from any aquatic source, including not only salt water but also fresh water.

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:seafood.

Etymology

Etymology tree English sea Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-der. Proto-Germanic *fōdô Old English fōda Middle English fode English food English seafood From sea + food.

Forms

plural
seafoods

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).