Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mussel

2 senses of mussel

Sense 1
mussel -- (black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine)
       => shellfish -- (meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean))

Sense 2
mussel -- (marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc.)
       => bivalve, pelecypod, lamellibranch -- (marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together)