mollecca
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Venetian moleca.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mollecca f (plural mollecche)
- a shore crab (Carcinus maenas) fished and sold as food right after the shedding of the shell
Further reading
[edit]- mollecca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana