shellfish

English

Cooked mussels

Etymology

From Middle English schellefyssch, from Old English sċielfisċ. Equivalent to shell +‎ fish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛl.fɪʃ/, [ʃɛɫˑfɪʃ]

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Noun

shellfish (countable and uncountable, plural shellfish or shellfishes)

1. A fisheries and colloquial term for an aquatic invertebrate having an inner or outer shell, such as a mollusc or crustacean, especially when edible.
2. A culinary and nutritional term for several groups of non-piscine, non-tetrapod, aquatic animals that are used as a food source. The term often exclusively refers to edible aquatic crustaceans, bivalve mollusks and cephalopod mollusks; but sometimes echinoderms may be included as well.

Hypernyms

• (food): seafood

Coordinate terms

• (food): cartilaginous fish, finned fish, finfish, fish

Translations

aquatic food that has a shell

• Afrikaans: skulpdier
• Arabic: مَحَار m (maḥār)
• Belarusian: малю́ск m (maljúsk)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Burmese: ခရု (my) (hka.ru.)
• Catalan: marisc (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貝類／贝类 (zh) (bèilèi)

• Danish: skaldyr (da) n
• Dutch: schelpdier (nl) n
• Esperanto: marisko
• Faroese: skeljadjór n, skeljadýr n
• Finnish: (no exact equivalent) äyriäinen (fi), simpukka (fi), osteri (fi); merenelävä (fi)
• French: coquillage (fr) m, fruits de mer (fr)
• Galician: marisco (gl) m
• German: Schalentier (de) n, Krustentier (de) n
• Greek: οστρακόδερμο (el) n (ostrakódermo)
• Haitian Creole: fwidmè
• Hindi: कस्तूरा (hi) (kastūrā)
• Hungarian: kagyló (hu)
• Indonesian: kerang (id)
• Irish: sliogán (ga) m
• Italian: crostaceo (it) m, mollusco (it) m
• Japanese: 貝 (ja) (かい, kai), 甲殻類 (ja) (こうかくるい, kōkakurui)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kannada: ಚಿಪ್ಪು ಮೀನು (cippu mīnu)
• Korean: 조개 (ko) (jogae)
• Lao: ຫອຍ (hōy)
• Latin: concha f
• Macedonian: школка f (školka)
• Malay: kerang (ms), kerang-kerangan
• Manx: eeast shliggagh m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skalldyr n

  Nynorsk: skaldyr n

• Old English: sċielfisċ m
• Persian: صدف‌ماهی (sadaf-mâhi)
• Polish: skorupiak (pl) m
• Portuguese: marisco (pt) m
• Russian: моллю́ск (ru) m (molljúsk) (mollusc), ракообра́зное (ru) n (rakoobráznoje) (crustacean)
• Scottish Gaelic: maorach m
• Slovak: kôrovec m, mušľa f, mäkkýš (sk) m, článkonožec m
• Spanish: marisco (es) m
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: skaldjur (sv) n
• Thai: หอย (th) (hɔ̌i)
• Ukrainian: молю́ск m (moljúsk)
• Vietnamese: ốc (vi)
• Volapük: koanaf (vo)
• Welsh: pysgodyn cragen m
• West Frisian: skulpdier n

Further reading

• shellfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia