Scallop

['skɒləp;'skæləp] or ['skæləp]

Definition

(noun.) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions.

(noun.) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces.

(noun.) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.).

(verb.) shape or cut in scallops; 'scallop the hem of the dress'.

(verb.) fish for scallops.

(verb.) form scallops in; 'scallop the meat'.

(verb.) bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top.

(verb.) decorate an edge with scallops; 'the dress had a scalloped skirt'.

Editor: Pasquale--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobaeus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell. See Pecten, 2.

(n.) One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell.

(n.) One of the shells of a scallop; also, a dish resembling a scallop shell.

(v. t.) To mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of circles, like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. See Scallop, n., 2.

(n.) To bake in scallop shells or dishes; to prepare with crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. See Scalloped oysters, below.

Edited by Greg

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Indent, notch.

Typist: Sanford

Definition

n. a bivalve having a sub-circular shell with sinuous radiating ridges: one of a series of curves in the edge of anything: a shallow dish in which oysters &c. are cooked baked and browned.—v.t. to cut the edge or border into scallops or curves: to cook in a scallop with crumbs of bread &c.—p.adj. Scall′oped having the edge or border cut into scallops or curves.—ns. Scall′op moth a name applied to several geometrid moths; Scall′op-shell a scallop or the shell of one the badge of a pilgrim.

Typist: Shelby