Usually means: Edible bivalve mollusk with ridges.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. scallop: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scallop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scallop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scallop: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scallop: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scallop, scallop: Wordnik
  7. scallop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scallop: Wiktionary
  9. scallop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scallop (scollop): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scallop: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scallop: Dictionary.com
  13. scallop: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. scallop: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scallop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scallop: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scallop: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scallop: Rhymezone
  19. Scallop: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. scallop: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. scallop: Free Dictionary
  22. scallop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. scallop: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. scallop: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scallop: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCALLOP: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. scallop: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. scallop: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scallop: Castle Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scallop: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See scalloped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the family Pectinidae which are free-swimming.
noun:  One of a series of curves, forming an edge similar to a scallop shell, especially in knitting and crochet.
noun:  (cooking) A fillet of meat, escalope.
noun:  (cooking, UK, Ireland, Australia, regional) A battered and deep-fried round potato slice.
noun:  (cooking, UK, regional, rare) A sautéed potato (a shallow-fried round potato slice).
noun:  A dish shaped like a scallop shell.
verb:  To create or form an edge in the shape of a crescent or multiple crescents.
verb:  (transitive) To bake in a casserole (gratin), originally in a scallop shell; especially used in form scalloped
verb:  (intransitive) To harvest scallops

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