shellfish

English

Cooked mussels

Etymology

From shell +‎ fish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛlˌfɪʃ/

Noun

shellfish ‎(countable and uncountable, plural shellfish or shellfishes)

1. An aquatic invertebrate, such as a mollusc or crustacean, that has a shell, especially as food.

Translations

aquatic food that has a shell

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貝類 (zh), 贝类 (zh) ‎(bèilèi)

• Danish: skaldyr (da) n
• Dutch: schelpdier (nl) n
• Esperanto: marisko
• Finnish: (no exact equivalent) äyriäinen (fi), simpukka (fi), osteri (fi) etc.; merenelävä (fi)
• French: coquillage (fr) m
• Galician: marisco (gl) m
• German: Schalentier n
• Greek: οστρακόδερμο (el) n ‎(ostrakódermo)
• Hindi: कस्तूरा (hi) ‎(kastūrā)
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: sliogán (ga) m
• Italian: crostaceo (it) m, mollusco (it) m
• Japanese: 貝 (ja) ‎(かい, kai)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can

• Kannada: ಚಿಪ್ಪು ಮೀನು ‎(cippu mīnu)
• Korean: 조개 (ko) ‎(jogae)
• Macedonian: школка f ‎(škólka)
• Malay: kerang-kerangan
• Manx: eeast shliggagh m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skalldyr n

  Nynorsk: skaldyr n

• Persian: صدف‌ماهی ‎(sadaf-mâhi)
• Polish: skorupiak (pl) m
• Portuguese: marisco (pt) m
• Russian: моллю́ск (ru) m ‎(molljúsk) (mollusc), ракообра́зное n ‎(rakoobráznoje) (crustacean)
• Scottish Gaelic: maorach m
• Spanish: marisco (es) m
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: skaldjur (sv) n
• Thai: หอย ‎(hɔ̌i)
• Vietnamese: ốc (vi)
• Volapük: koanaf (vo)
• Welsh: pysgodyn cragen m

External links

• Shellfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia