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Definitions of scallops in various dictionaries:
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.)
noun - edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells
noun - thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
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| If you order Coquilles St. Jacques in a restaurant, this is what you will be served |
| For an elegant dinner, serve Coquilles St. Jacques, these shellfish in a wine sauce |
| Coquilles St. Jacques is often served in the shell of these mollusks, the dish's main ingredient |
| They're seen here accompanying shrimp & lacking their distinctive shells |
| (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Santiago de Compostela in Spain.) Pilgrims can find Santiago de Compostela by these shells, the symbol of St. James; one theory is that the converging lines represent pilgrims coming from all over |
| This bivalve mollusk has 2 fan-shaped shells that can be used to serve dishes like coquilles St. Jacques |
| It's not just humans; starfish also like to eat this bivalve with a fluted shell, the main ingredient in coquilles St.-Jacques |
| They're seen here accompanying shrimp & lacking their distinctive shells |
| In coquilles St. Jacques |
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Scallop () is a common name that is primarily applied to any one of numerous species of saltwater clams or marine bivalve mollusks in the taxonomic family Pectinidae, the scallops. However, the common name "scallop" is also sometimes applied to species in other closely related families within the superfamily Pectinoidea, which also includes the thorny oysters. * Scallops are a cosmopolitan family of bivalves which are found in all of the world's oceans, although never in freshwater. They are one of very few groups of bivalves to be primarily "free-living", with many species capable of rapidly swimming short distances and even of migrating some distance across the ocean floor. A small minority of scallop species live cemented to rocky substrates as adults, while others attach themselves to stationary or rooted objects such as sea grass at some point in their lives by means of a filament they secrete called a byssal thread. The majority of species, however, live recumbent on sandy substrat |