mussel
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Jones plays Jack's brother Dyfan who he runs a mussel family business with.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Supriyanto, 32, is a green mussel trader and once bought from local fishermen who harvested the shellfish offshore.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
On Wednesday, they served a mussel dish with garlic confit and serrano chili developed by his breakfast sous chef.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
The amphipod was discovered at a depth of 2,602 meters in a mussel bed within the Galápagos Rift hydrothermal vent fields.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
He then speared a mussel, ate it, and pronounced it “SmmklikAfrikaans for “tasty.”
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
He said he learned how to hand rake mussels during the film, although admitted they were unusable by the end of the day.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Like the mussels, it requires “crystal-clear, rock-hard, ice-cold water,” said Robert T. Dillon, a former biology professor who runs the Freshwater Gastropods of North America Project, which inventories snail species.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2026
They say the mussels have disappeared because of the plant's wastewater.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
The smoked rainbow trout and slow-smoked mackerel with chili flakes are my personal favorites, but Fishwife’s selection includes salmon, tuna, mussels, sardines, and even beautifully packaged caviar.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025
Blue days, as they walked among the sharp-edged mussels, prying open their blue-black shells to tickle their orange tendons.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
