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# mussel

«mussel» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sea or river shellfish with a long dark blue or black…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a mussel, mussels)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A mussel is a sea or river shellfish with a long dark blue or black shell in two halves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mussel/#m1)

2) Mussels are cooked and eaten as food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mussel/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, mussels are molluscs; they stick to rocks with strong threads and filter water to eat. At the seaside children find mussel beds on rocks. In cooking, mussels are steamed until shells open.

### examples

- Mussels cling to the rocks at low tide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mussel/#x1)
- Dad ordered mussels with chips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mussel/#x2)
- A mussel opens its shell to feed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mussel/#x3)
- Don't eat a mussel that stays closed after cooking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mussel/#x4)
- The rocks were black with mussels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mussel/#x5)
- Mussels clean the water by filtering it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mussel/#x6)
- The mussel shell grew bigger and bigger, and turned into a pretty little boat, which would have held a dozen children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mussel/#x7)

### note

Homophone: «muscle» (the body part) sounds exactly the same. Joke: «Why did the mussel go to the gym? To build muscle.» Countable: one mussel, two mussels.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mussel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mussel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.