bay scallop

Questions about bay scallop

What does bay scallop mean?

bay scallop means "muscle of small choice shallow-water scallops". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for bay scallop?

Close synonyms include Pecten irradians. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bay scallop a common word?

bay scallop is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.