"blue mussel" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: blue mussels [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} blue mussel (plural blue mussels)
  1. A medium-sized edible mussel, Mytilus edulis, found on the North Atlantic coast of North America, Europe, and in other temperate and polar waters around the world. Wikipedia link: blue mussel Categories (lifeform): Bivalves Synonyms (Mytilus edulis): common mussel Translations (Mytilus edulis): midhje [feminine] (Albanian), musclo [masculine] (Catalan), clòtxina [feminine] (Catalan), 藍貝 (Chinese Cantonese), 蓝贝 (laam⁴ bui³) (Chinese Cantonese), 藍貝 (Chinese Mandarin), 蓝贝 (lánbèi) (Chinese Mandarin), blåmusling [common-gender] (Danish), mitulo [singular] (Esperanto), kræklingur [masculine] (Faroese), sinisimpukka (Finnish), moule bleue [feminine] (French), moule commune [feminine] (French), mexillón [masculine] (Galician), Miesmuschel [feminine] (German), kékkagyló (Hungarian), ehető kékkagyló (Hungarian), kræklingur [masculine] (Icelandic), mitilo [masculine] (Italian), cozza [feminine] (Italian), muscolo [masculine] (Italian), peocio [masculine] (Italian), ヨーロッパ貽貝 (yōroppaigai) (alt: ヨーロッパイガイ) (Japanese), musculus [masculine] (Latin), mitulus (Latin), blåskjell [feminine, masculine, neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), blåskjel [feminine, neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), omułek (Polish), mexilhão [masculine] (Portuguese), midie [feminine] (Romanian), ми́дия (mídija) [feminine] (Russian), ми́дия съедо́бная (mídija sʺjedóbnaja) [feminine] (Russian), dagnja [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), slávka [feminine] (Slovak), slávka jedlá [feminine] (Slovak), mejillón [masculine] (Spanish), choro [masculine] (Spanish), blåmussla [common-gender] (Swedish), mavi midye (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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