mussel

See also: Mussel

English

Cooked mussels (Mytilus edulis)

Mussels in beer broth at a restaurant in Singapore

Etymology

From Middle English muscle (“mussel”), from Old English muscle, from Proto-West Germanic *muskulā, from Late Latin muscula, from Latin mūsculus (“mussel, muscle”, literally “little mouse”). Doublet of muscle.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌsəl/

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• Rhymes: -ʌsəl
• Homophone: muscle

Noun

mussel (plural mussels)

1. Any of several groups of bivalve shellfish with elongated, asymmetrical shells.
   1. A freshwater mussel, usually edible, of the order Unionida in subclass Palaeoheterodonta.
   2. A saltwater mussel, usually edible, of the order Mytilida in subclass Pteriomorphia.
   3. Any of certain other bivalves of somewhat similar appearance, such as the zebra mussel and quagga mussel of the family Dreissenidae in subclass Heterodonta.

Derived terms

• arc-form pearly mussel
• Australian mussel
• bay mussel
• bearded mussel
• blue mussel
• California mussel
• Chilean blue mussel
• Chilean mussel
• common mussel
• date mussel
• duck mussel
• fan mussel
• foolish mussel
• freshwater pearl mussel
• horse mussel
• Korean mussel
• Magellan mussel
• Mediterranean mussel
• Musselburgh
• mussel digger
• Musselshell (River, County, CDP)
• mussel shrimp
• quagga mussel
• ribbed mussel
• swan mussel
• zebra mussel

 

Related terms

• mouse

Translations

any small edible bivalve shellfish — see also clam,‎ oyster,‎ mollusc

• Abenaki: als
• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Afrikaans: mossel (af)
• Arabic: بَلَحُ الْبَحْر m (balaḥu l-baḥr)

  Hijazi Arabic: بَلَح البَحَر m (balaḥ al-baḥar)

  Moroccan Arabic: بو زْروڭ m (bu zrug)

• Armenian: միդիա (midia)
• Azerbaijani: midye
• Basque: muskuilua
• Belarusian: мі́дыя f (mídyja)
• Brunei Malay: kupang
• Bulgarian: мида (bg) f (mida)
• Catalan: musclo (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 青口 (ceng¹ hau²)

  Mandarin: 淡菜 (zh) (dàncài), 殼菜／壳菜 (zh) (qiàocài), 貽貝／贻贝 (zh) (yíbèi), 青口 (zh) (qīngkǒu)

• Czech: slávka (cs) f
• Danish: musling (da) c
• Dutch: mossel (nl) f
• Esperanto: mitulo
• Estonian: jõekarp
• Ewe: aɖɔɖi n
• Faroese: kræklingur m
• Finnish: simpukka (fi)
• French: moule (fr) f
• Galician: mexillón (gl) m
• Georgian: ორკარედი ნიჟარა (orḳaredi nižara)
• German: Muschel (de) f, Miesmuschel (de) f
• Greek: μύδι (el) n (mýdi)

  Ancient: κόγχη f (kónkhē)

• Greenlandic: uiloq
• Hebrew: מוּל (he) m (mul)
• Hungarian: szívkagyló (hu), kagyló (hu)
• Icelandic: kræklingur (is) m, bláskel f
• Irish: diúilicín m
• Italian: cozza (it) f, mitilo (it) m, muscolo (it) m, peocio m, dattero nero m, poverazza f
• Japanese: 貽貝 (ja) (イガイ, igai), ムール貝 (mūru-gai)
• Khmer: គ្រំចំពុះទា (krum chɑmpuh tie), គ្រំប៉ោក (krum paok)
• Korean: 조개 (ko) (jogae), 홍합 (ko) (honghap)
• Latin: spondylus m
• Macedonian: мушула (mk) f (mušula), школка f (školka)
• Malay: kupang (ms)
• Maori: kūtai
• Middle English: muscle
• Navajo: chʼosh dichiłí bitsʼaʼígíí
• Norman: moûle f, bé d'corbîn m
• Northern Sami: skálžu
• Norwegian: blåskjell
• Old English: muscle f
• Persian: صدف سیاه (sadaf-e siyâh)
• Polish: małż (pl) m, omułek (pl) m
• Portuguese: mexilhão (pt) m
• Romanian: midie (ro) f, scoică de apă dulce
• Russian: ми́дия (ru) f (mídija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: školjka (sh) f, jestiva školjka f, dagnja (sh) f

• Slovak: mušľa f
• Slovene: dagnja f
• Southern Ohlone: hakkaw
• Spanish: mejillón (es) m, choro (es)
• Swedish: mussla (sv) c
• Tagalog: halaan
• Thai: หอยสองฝา (hŏi sŏng făa)
• Turkish: midye (tr)
• Ukrainian: мі́дія f (mídija)
• Vietnamese: trai (vi)
• Walloon: mosse (wa) f, moule (wa) f, moulete (wa) f
• Welsh: cragen las f (North Welsh), cragen ddu f, misglen (cy) f (South Welsh)
• West Coast Bajau: please add this translation if you can
• Wolof: please add this translation if you can
• Yámana: kačóin
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
• Yup'ik: please add this translation if you can
• Zazaki: midye tasek
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

freshwater mussel

• Finnish: järvisimpukka (fi), makeanveden simpukka
• French: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: kākahi

saltwater mussel

• Bulgarian: черна мида f (černa mida)
• Catalan: musclo (ca) m
• Finnish: merisimpukka
• French: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: mexillón (gl) m
• Russian: мидия (ru) f (midija)

References

• mussel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia