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