 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
shellfish
noun
1: meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially
a mollusk or crustacean)
2: invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed
in a shell [syn: {mollusk}, {mollusc}]
[also: {shellfishes} (pl)]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shellfish \Shell"fish'\, noun (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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "shellfish":
Dungeness crab, Japanese crab, blue point, clam, coquillage, crab,
crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, langouste, limpet, littleneck clam,
lobster, mussel, oyster, periwinkle, prawn, quahog, scallop,
shrimp, snail, soft-shell crab, steamer, whelk
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