What Type Of Word Is Mussel?
What Type Of Word Is Mussel? A small edible bivalve shellfish of the families Unionidae (fresh water mussels) and Mytilidae (salt water mussels). Where does the word mussel come from? “edible bivalve mollusk,” Middle English muscle, from Old English muscle, musscel, from Late Latin muscula (source of Old French musle, Modern French moule, Middle Dutch