seafood

CEFRA1

/ˈsiːfuːd/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
Fish and other sea animals eaten as food.
02
noun
Extra detail
Food from any aquatic source, including not only salt water but also fresh water.

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At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meaning

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

In context

For quotations using this term, see Citations:seafood.
But most of all, they were jealous because these strangers feasted daily on great turtle, albacore and sail-fish, the sweetest of all seafoods.

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But most of all, they were jealous because these strangers feasted daily on great turtle, albacore and sail-fish, the sweetest of all seafoods.
1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 127
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.
2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN

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