quin

name

Etymology: * Irish: variant of Quinn, from Irish Ó Coinn (“descendant of Chief”). * English (of Norman origin): nickname from Old French quin (“monkey”). * French: from a short form of Jaquin, pet form of Jacques, from Latin Iācōbus (English Jacob).

1. A surname.
2. A village in County Clare, Ireland, south-east of Ennis (Irish grid ref R 4174).

noun

1. A European scallop, Pecten opercularis, used as food.

   “Similarly the stocks of the free-living scallops and quins, which are caught by trawling, are threatened by over-fishing to supply the market for canned or frozen luxury sea-foods.”