shellfish
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English schellefyssch, from Old English sċielfisċ. Equivalent to shell + fish.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]shellfish (countable and uncountable, plural shellfish or shellfishes)
- A fisheries and colloquial term for an aquatic invertebrate having an inner or outer shell, such as a mollusc or crustacean, especially when edible.
- 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
[edit]- (food): seafood
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (food): cartilaginous fish, finned fish, finfish, fish
Translations
[edit]aquatic food that has a shell
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- en:Crustaceans
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