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noun black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine
noun marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc.
originFrom Middle English muscle (“mussel”), from Old English muscle, from Proto-West Germanic *muskulā, from Late Latin muscula, from Latin mūsculus (“mussel, muscle”, literally “little mouse”). Doublet of muscle.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0