Definitions of SHELLFISH [ˈʃɛlˌfɪʃ]

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Definition of 'SHELLFISH'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) shellfish
an aquatic animal having a shell, as the oyster or other mollusks or the lobster or other crustaceans.

Etymology: (bef. 900)

Definition of 'SHELLFISH'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) shellfish
meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)

2. (noun) mollusk, mollusc, shellfish
invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

Definition of 'SHELLFISH'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) shellfish
a soft sea animal with a shell, or its meat
crab, oysters and other shellfish; I don't eat shellfish.

Definition of 'SHELLFISH'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) SHELLFISH
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

Definition of 'SHELLFISH'

U.S. National Library of Medicine

1. SHELLFISH
Aquatic invertebrates belonging to the phylum MOLLUSCA or the subphylum CRUSTACEA, and used as food.

Translation of 'SHELLFISH'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: any of several kinds of sea animal covered with a shell (eg oyster, crab).
Afrikaans: skulpvis	Arabic: سَمَكَه مَحاريَّه ، صَدَف	Bulgarian: мекотело с черупка
Brazilian: crustáceo	Czech: měkkýš, korýš	German: das Schalentier
Danish: skaldyr	Greek: θαλασσινά οστρακοειδή	Spanish: crustáceo, marisco(s)
Estonian: koorikloom	Farsi: حلزون صدف دار	Finnish: äyriäinen
French: coquillages; crustacés; f	Hebrew: חָיַית-מָיִם מִבַעֲלֵי הַ	Hindi: कवच-प्राण��
Croatian: školjka, ljuskar	Hungarian: kagylós állat(ok)	Indonesian: kerang-kerangan
Icelandic: skeldÿr/-fiskur	Italian: mollusco; crostaceo	Japanese: 貝
Korean: 갑각류의 동물	Lithuanian: kiaukutinis gyvûnas	Latvian: vēžveidīgais
Malay: hidupan laut yang bercang	Dutch: schelpdier	Norwegian: skalldyr
Polish: skorupiak	Persian: حلزون صدف دار	Pashto: كب يا بل داوبو ژوى چې كلك
Portuguese: crustáceo	Romanian: scoici; crustacee; fructe	Russian: моллюск; ракообразное
Slovak: mäkkýš, kôrovec	Slovenian: lupinar	Serbian: ljuskar
Swedish: skaldjur	Thai: สัตว์น้ำประเภทที่มีเปลือก	Turkish: su kabuklusu
Taiwanese: 甲殼類動物	Ukrainian: молюск	Urdu: کیکڑا، جھینگا وغیرہ
Vietnamese: loài động vậy có vỏ	Chinese: 甲壳类动物
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