English noun: shellfish |
1. | shellfish (food) meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) |
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| Broader (hypernym) | seafood |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | clam, cockle, crab, crabmeat, crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, crayfish, ecrevisse, escallop, huitre, langouste, limpet, lobster, mussel, oyster, rock lobster, scallop, scollop, spiny lobster |
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| Part meronym | mollusc, mollusk, shellfish |
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2. | shellfish (animal) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell |
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| Synonyms | mollusc, mollusk |
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| Broader (hypernym) | invertebrate |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bivalve, cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk, chiton, coat-of-mail shell, gastropod, lamellibranch, pelecypod, polyplacophore, scaphopod, sea cradle, univalve |
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| Part holonym | carapace, cuticle, shell, shellfish, shield |
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| Member meronym | Mollusca, phylum Mollusca |
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