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What is "shellfish" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does shellfish mean in English? Meaning of shellfish definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "shellfish" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "shellfish": meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)

Noun

  • Meaning: meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
  • Synonyms: shellfish
  • Hyponyms: clam cockle crab crabmeat crawdad crawfish crayfish ecrevisse escallop huitre langouste limpet lobster mussel oyster rock lobster scallop scollop spiny lobster
  • Hypernyms: seafood

    • Meaning of "shellfish": invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

    Noun

  • Meaning: invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
  • Synonyms: mollusc mollusk shellfish
  • Hyponyms: bivalve cephalopod cephalopod mollusk chiton coat-of-mail shell gastropod lamellibranch pelecypod polyplacophore scaphopod sea cradle univalve
  • Hypernyms: invertebrate
  • Part Holonyms: carapace cuticle shell shellfish shield

    • Synonyms:

    clam, crustacean, mollusk, barnacle, snail, scallop, conch, crawfish, prawn, shrimp, lobster, mussel, oyster, whelk, piddock, crayfish,

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