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shellfish collapse: meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)

prawn collapse: shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible; any of various edible decapod crustaceans; fish for prawns

steamer collapse: a ship powered by one or more steam engines; a cooking utensil that can be used to cook food by steaming it; travel by means of steam power; "The ship steamed off into the Pacific"

lobster collapse: any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae; flesh of a lobster

oyster collapse: marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters; a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl; gather oysters, dig oysters

limpet collapse: any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas; mollusk with a low conical shell

papule collapse: a small inflamed elevation of skin that is nonsuppurative (as in chicken pox)

snail collapse: freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell; gather snails; "We went snailing in the summer"

clam collapse: burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness; flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams; gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean

polyp collapse: one of two forms that coelenterates take e.g. a hydra or coral: usually sedentary and has a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth; a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane

carbuncle collapse: an infection larger than a boil and with several openings for discharge of pus; deep-red cabochon garnet cut without facets

ulcer collapse: a circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue

felon collapse: a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail

chilblain collapse: inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture

chancre collapse: a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis)

tubercle collapse: a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis

shrimp collapse: small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible; fish for shrimp

pustule collapse: a small inflamed elevation of skin containing pus; a blister filled with pus

festering collapse: (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus

abscess collapse: symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue

fester collapse: a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus; ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering"

canker collapse: an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth); a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark; infect with a canker; become infected with a canker

scab collapse: the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion; someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike; form a scab; "the wounds will eventually scab"

scallop collapse: edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions; edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces; one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.); shape or cut in scallops; "scallop the hem of the dress"; fish for scallops; form scallops in; "scallop the meat"; bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top; decorate an edge with scallops; "the dress had a scalloped skirt"

crab collapse: a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply; "he caught a crab and lost the race"; decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers; the edible flesh of any of various crabs; a quarrelsome grouch; fish for crab; scurry sideways like a crab; direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind

sty collapse: a pen for swine; an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid

wale collapse: thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship; a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions

pimple collapse: a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne

stigma collapse: a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease; an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod; the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil

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