blue mussel

English

Blue mussels

Noun

blue mussel (plural blue mussels)

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.

Synonyms

(Mytilus edulis): common mussel

Translations

Mytilus edulis

Chinese:
Cantonese: 藍貝, 蓝贝 (laam⁴ bui³)

Mandarin: 藍貝, 蓝贝 (lánbèi)
Danish: blåmusling (da) c
Faroese: kræklingur m
Finnish: sinisimpukka (fi)
French: moule bleue (fr) f
Galician: mexillón (gl) m
German: Miesmuschel (de) f
Hungarian: kékkagyló

Icelandic: kræklingur (is) m
Japanese: ヨーロッパ貽貝 (ヨーロッパイガイ, yōroppaigai)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: blåskjell m, f, n

Nynorsk: blåskjel f, n
Portuguese: mexilhão (pt) m
Russian: ми́дия (ru) f (mídija), ми́дия съедо́бная f (mídija sʺjedóbnaja)
Spanish: mejillón (es) m
Swedish: blåmussla c

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