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Webster 1913 Edition


Shellfish

Shell′fishˊ

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Noun.
(Zool.)
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 2024


shellfish

shellfish

English

Cooked mussels

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.

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