periwinkles
Small edible sea snails
Periwinkles are small edible sea snails found in coastal waters, gathered from rocks and tidal pools.
The word also refers to trailing evergreen plants with blue or white flowers, commonly used as ground cover.
The two meanings are unrelated—different words that converged on the same spelling.
We picked periwinkles off the rocks at low tide.
Edible marine gastropods
- sea snailsShelled marine mollusks
- tidal poolsShoreline water pockets
- shellfishAquatic creatures with exoskeletons
- foragingSeeking wild food sources
gastropods · rockpools · coastal · edible · whelks · cockles · mussels · seaweed
winkles
Edible marine gastropods
- sea snailsShelled marine mollusks
- tidal poolsShoreline water pockets
- shellfishAquatic creatures with exoskeletons
foraging · gastropods · rockpools · coastal · edible · whelks · cockles · mussels · seaweed · littoral
groundcover
Low plants blanketing soil
evergreen · shade · garden · creeping · minor · major · glossy · leaves · spreading · borders
- seafoodfish, shrimp, crab, lobster, salmon
- invertebratesinvertebrate, arthropod, arthropods, mollusk, crustacean
- mollusksclams, mollusk, mollusks, snail, snails
- shellfishclams, crab, oysters, lobster, shrimp
- tide poolingcrabs, shrimp, anemones, sea anemones, starfish
- tidepoolstidepools, tide pools, tide pool, rockpools, rock pools
periwinkleslobsters
Large edible sea crustaceans
crabs · conch · whelks · abalone · giant clams
periwinklesdelphiniums
Tall blue flowering plants
foxgloves · hollyhocks · sunflowers · gladiolus · ornamental grasses