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Word | Scallop |
Arabic Meaning | إكليل, الأسقلوب محار مروحي الشكل, صدفة, سرطان البحر, المحار الصدفي |
one of a series of rounded teeth formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth etc.) / decorate an edge with scallops / Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobaeus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell. See Pecten, 2. / each of a series of convex rounded projections forming an ornamental edging cut in material or worked in lace or knitting in imitation of the edge of a scallop shell., | |
Usage | ⇒ Scallops are really beautiful ⇒ European axes at the most might have wide scallops filed on the edge of the blade plate on the inside or bottom of the beard, and that is not common. |
Synonyms | scollop, crenation, clam, crenel, crenelle, crimp, cut, escallop, indent, notch, saw, conch, crenature, cutlet, jag, mussel, nick, oyster, shellfish, contort, |
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