| NOUN | food | shellfish | meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) |
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| animal | shellfish, mollusk, mollusc | invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell |
| Sounds | sheh'lfih.sh | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abolish ... Yiddish: 161 rhymes with ihsh... | |
| Meaning | meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean). | |
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| Part of | mollusk, mollusc, shellfish | invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell |
| Narrower | clam | flesh of either hard ... / hard-shell or soft-shell clams |
| cockle | Common edible European bivalve | |
| crab, crabmeat | The edible flesh of any of various crabs | |
| crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse | tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | |
| huitre, oyster | edible body of any of numerous oysters | |
| limpet | mollusk with a low conical shell | |
| lobster | flesh of a lobster | |
| mussel | black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine | |
| scallop, scollop, escallop | edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells | |
| spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish | warm-water lobsters without claws | |
| Broader | seafood | edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc |
| Spanish | marisco | |
| Catalan | marisc | |
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