: edible marine fish and shellfish

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Same goes for Kanna, the property's stylish beach club, where even hotel guests pay $255 extra for a Balinese daybed (albeit with a bottle of Moët and a seafood platter). Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2026 Canada is also charging 50% on American dairy products (except cheese, which gets 25%) and 25% on American fish and seafood, including frozen lobster. Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026 Breakfast includes eggs, bacon and sausage, omelets, pancakes, waffles, and biscuits and gravy, while lunch expands into burgers, subs, seafood platters, salads and daily comfort-food specials. Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 3 Sep. 2026 There are the famed Urfa chiles of the country’s southeast, the seafood, greens and corn in the north that edge the Black Sea, and the grand amalgam of influences in Istanbul. Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 2 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for seafood

Word History

First Known Use

1836, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of seafood was in 1836

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“Seafood.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seafood. Accessed 6 Sep. 2026.

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