mussel

English

Cooked mussels (Mytilus edulis)

Mussels in beer broth at a restaurant in Singapore

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌsəl/

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• Rhymes: -ʌsəl
• Homophone: muscle

Noun

mussel (plural mussels)

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

Derived terms

terms derived from mussel (noun)

• Australian mussel
• bay mussel
• bearded mussel
• blue mussel
• California mussel
• Chilean mussel
• common mussel

• date mussel
• duck mussel
• foolish mussel
• Korean mussel
• Mediterranean mussel
• Musselburgh
• Musselshell (River, County, CDP)
• quagga mussel
• swan mussel
• zebra mussel

Related terms

• mouse

Translations

any small edible bivalve shellfish — see also clam,‎ oyster,‎ mollusc

• Abenaki: als
• Afrikaans: mossel
• Arabic:

  Moroccan Arabic: بو زْروڭ m (bu zrug)

• Armenian: միդիա (midia)
• Azerbaijani: midye
• Belarusian: мі́дыя f (mídyja)
• Brunei Malay: kupang
• Bulgarian: мида (bg) f (mida)
• Catalan: musclo (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 青口 (ceng¹ hau²)

  Mandarin: 淡菜 (zh) (dàncài), 殼菜／壳菜 (zh) (qiàocài), 壳菜 (zh) (qiàocài), 貽貝／贻贝 (zh) (yíbèi), 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)
• Icelandic: kræklingur (is) m, bláskel f
• Irish: diúilicín m
• Italian: cozza (it) f, mitilo (it) m, muscolo (it) m, peocio m, dattero nero m, poverazza f
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• Japanese: 貽貝 (イガイ, igai), ムール貝 (mūru-gai)
• Khmer: គ្រំចំពុះទា (krum chɑmpuh tie), គ្រំប៉ោក (krum paok)
• Korean: 조개 (ko) (jogae), 홍합 (ko) (honghap)
• Latin: spondylus m
• Macedonian: мушула (mk) f (mušula), школка f (školka)
• Malay: kupang
• Maori: kūtai
• Navajo: chʼosh dichiłí bitsʼaʼígíí
• Norman: moûle f, bé d'corbîn m
• Norwegian: blåskjell
• Persian: صدف سیاه (sadaf e siyāh)
• Polish: małż (pl) m, omułek (pl) m
• Portuguese: mexilhão (pt) m
• Romanian: midie (ro) f
• Russian: ми́дия (ru) f (mídija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: školjka (sh) f, jestiva školjka f, dagnja (sh) f

• Slovak: mušľa f
• Slovene: dagnja f
• Southern Ohlone: hakkaw
• Spanish: mejillón (es) m, choro (es)
• Swedish: mussla (sv) c
• Tagalog: halaan
• Thai: หอยสองฝา (hŏi sŏng făa)
• Turkish: midye (tr)
• Ukrainian: мі́дія f (mídija)
• Vietnamese: trai (vi)
• Walloon: mosse (wa) f, moule (wa) f, moulete (wa) f
• Welsh: cragen las f (North Welsh), cragen ddu f, misglen (cy) f (South Welsh)
• Yámana: kačóin

freshwater mussel

• Maori: kākahi
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saltwater mussel

• Galician: mexillón (gl) m
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References

• mussel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia