mussel

«mussel» in Mova's school dictionary: a sea or river shellfish with a long dark blue or black… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a mussel, mussels)

meaning for a pupil

1) A mussel is a sea or river shellfish with a long dark blue or black shell in two halves. tree →

2) Mussels are cooked and eaten as food. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, mussels are molluscs; they stick to rocks with strong threads and filter water to eat. At the seaside children find mussel beds on rocks. In cooking, mussels are steamed until shells open.

examples

• Mussels cling to the rocks at low tide. tree →
• Dad ordered mussels with chips. tree →
• A mussel opens its shell to feed. tree →
• Don't eat a mussel that stays closed after cooking. tree →
• The rocks were black with mussels. tree →
• Mussels clean the water by filtering it. tree →
• The mussel shell grew bigger and bigger, and turned into a pretty little boat, which would have held a dozen children. tree →

note

Homophone: «muscle» (the body part) sounds exactly the same. Joke: «Why did the mussel go to the gym? To build muscle.» Countable: one mussel, two mussels.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mussel» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.