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Shellfish

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Noun

1. shellfish

meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)

2. mollusc, mollusk, shellfish

invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Shellfish

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noun plural -fish or -fishes
any aquatic invertebrate having a shell or shell-like carapace, esp such an animal used as human food. Examples are crustaceans such as crabs and lobsters and molluscs such as oysters

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Shellfish

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nounWord forms: plural ˈshellˌfish or ˈshellˌfishes
any aquatic animal with a shell, esp. an edible one, as the clam or lobster

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Shellfish

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n. pl. shellfish or shell·fish·es
1. Any of various edible aquatic invertebrate animals having a shell, especially mollusks such as clams and oysters, and crustaceans such as lobsters, crabs, and shrimp.
2. An edible mollusk, in contrast to a crustacean: regulations concerning fish, crustaceans, and shellfish.
3. The edible flesh of such animals.

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