Definitions for mussel

mussel mus·sel

Spelling: [muhs-uh l]
IPA: /ˈmʌs əl/

Mussel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in mussel (elmssu).

Definitions for mussel

noun

  1. any bivalve mollusk, especially an edible marine bivalve of the family Mytilidae and a freshwater clam of the family Unionidae.

Origin of mussel

before 1000; Middle English, Old English muscle Vulgar Latin *mūscula, variant of Latin mūsculus little mouse, sea mussel. See muscle

Examples for mussel

The voices were thin and sharp as the edges of mussel shells.

The mussel whispered to the wind, who rushed off at once; and Sep launched his boat.

Mrs. mussel gets five of it and the rest I may waste in riotous living.

Its eyes were jellyfish, its hair of seaweed, and the mouth was like a mussel.

I am the King mussel, doomed to be a mussel so long as that wretch lived.

Compare the mussel with the snail as to movements and shell.

Didn't I tell you that there's a world of work to be done over the mussel?

Page Six says they dined on mussel soup, crayfish and artichoke risotto at a tony Venetian restaurant.

There was no welcome on Mrs. mussel's mat, but I'm still glowing.

The Limnetis is enclosed in a bivalved shell, like a mussel.

Word Value for mussel
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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