About The Word Shellfish
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Shellfish
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What's The Definition Of Shellfish?
[n] invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
[n] meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) Synonyms | Synonyms for Shellfish: mollusc | mollusk Related Terms | Find terms related to Shellfish: See Also | bivalve | carapace | cephalopod | cephalopod mollusk | chiton | clam | coat-of-mail shell | cockle | crab | crabmeat | crawdad | crawfish | crayfish | cuticle | ecrevisse | escallop | gastropod | huitre | invertebrate | lamellibranch | langouste | limpet | lobster | mollusc | Mollusca | mollusk | mussel | oyster | pelecypod | phylum Mollusca | polyplacophore | rock lobster | scallop | scaphopod | scollop | sea cradle | seafood | shell | shellfish | shellfish | spiny lobster | univalve Shellfish In Webster's Dictionary \Shell"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a
shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other
mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.
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