seafood

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English sea Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-der. Proto-Germanic *fōdô Old English fōda Middle English fode English food English seafood From sea + food.

1. Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.

   “But most of all, they were jealous because these strangers feasted daily on great turtle, albacore and sail-fish, the sweetest of all seafoods.”

   “Write about radiation levels in seafood, “safe” pollution limits set by pollutors, government policy auctioned for campaign donations and Seaboard's ex juris police force, and you'll raise the temperature of public awareness, fractionally, towards its ignition point.”

2. Food from any aquatic source, including not only salt water but also fresh water.

   “For quotations using this term, see Citations:seafood.”