Seafood Word Search
This Seafood word search hides 12 words on a 15×15 grid — the ingredients, dishes, and flavors of a food topic. Trace each one with a finger or mouse and it locks in as soon as the whole word is covered. No signup, no download.
Words to find: SALMON, TUNA, SHRIMP, CRAB, LOBSTER, OYSTER, CLAM, MUSSEL, SCALLOP, SARDINE, ANCHOVY, MACKEREL.
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Seafood word list, defined
- SALMON /ˈsæmən/ · noun
- A fish with a pink or reddish body, often found in cold water. Salmon are anadromous, meaning they migrate from saltwater to freshwater to spawn. Related: trout, fish, salmonella, herring.
- TUNA /tjuːnə/ · noun
- A large, edible fish with a blue back and silver belly, often served raw or cooked in sushi, steaks, or canned. Related: mackerel, sardine, herring, salmon.
- SHRIMP /ʃrɪmp/ · noun
- A small, typically pink or brown, edible crustacean with a long tail and claws, often served as food. Related: prawn, crab, lobster, crayfish.
- CRAB /krab/ · noun, verb
- A crab is a ten-legged crustacean with a broad flat shell and pincers, found in seas and fresh water. As a verb, to crab means to complain or grumble peevishly. Related: crustacean, complain, grumble, grouch.
- LOBSTER /ˈlɒsbər/ · noun
- A large, long-tailed, decapod crustacean, typically blue or greenish in colour, with a hard shell and claws, often served as food. Related: crab, prawn, shrimp, langoustine.
- OYSTER /ˈɔɪstər/ · noun
- A type of edible marine bivalve mollusk, typically found in coastal waters, often served raw on the half shell or cooked in various dishes. Related: mollusk, bivalve, shellfish, seafood.
- CLAM /klæm/ · noun
- A clam is any of various edible burrowing marine or freshwater bivalve mollusks with two shells hinged together, typically eaten as food. Related: bivalve, mollusk, shellfish.
- MUSSEL /mʌsəl/ · noun
- A type of edible marine bivalve mollusc, typically having a dark blue or black shell with a long siphon. Mussels are often found in clusters on rocks or piers. Related: clam, oyster, scallop, snail.
- SCALLOP /skɔləp/ · noun
- A type of marine mollusk with a fan-shaped shell, or a slice of this shell used as food. A scallop can also refer to a curved or wing-shaped part of something. Related: shellfish, mollusk, fan shell, wing shell.
- SARDINE /sɑːrˈdiːn/ · noun
- A small, oily fish, often canned and eaten as a snack or used in cooking. A type of small, usually cylindrical, metal container, especially one used for storing or serving food. Related: herring, anchovy, mackerel, sard.
- ANCHOVY /ˈæn.tʃoʊ.vi/ (US); /ˈæn.tʃə.vi/ (UK) · noun
- A small, silvery-green marine fish of the herring family (genus Engraulis), caught in the Mediterranean and elsewhere and usually eaten salted, cured, or packed in oil; also, a piece of this fish prepared as food. Related: sprat, sardine, pilchard, herring.
- MACKEREL /mækərəl/ · noun
- A medium-sized, oily fish with a greenish-blue back and silvery sides, often caught for food. Related: sardine, herring, anchovy.
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