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What is the noun for mussel?

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mussel
  1. Any of several groups of bivalve shellfish with elongated, asymmetrical shells
    1. fresh water mussels, usually edible, of the order Unionida in subclass Palaeoheterodonta.
    2. salt water mussels, usually edible, of the order Mytilida in subclass Pteriomorpha.
    3. Certain other bivalves of somewhat similar appearance, such as the zebra mussel and quagga mussel of the family Dreissenidae in subclass Heterodonta.
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    1. “Also try tippets of razorfish, cockle, mussel and especially small tellin clams found after storms washed up on the beaches.”
      “High mackerel, herring, mussel and razorfish are all good, but the best by far is a dried black lugworm.”
      “Maori scraped it with mussel shells, wove it into fishing nets, made eel traps and tukutuku panels to decorate whare.”
mussels
  1. plural of mussel
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    1. “High levels of PSP toxins have also been detected in queen scallops and mussels scattered up the west coast.”
      “Mussels were removed using scrapers, a process that necessarily also removed most acorn barnacles intermingled among the mussels.”
      “Recently I obtained two rather nice swan mussels for my freshwater aquarium.”
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