Shellfish
['ʃelfɪʃ] or ['ʃɛl'fɪʃ]
Definition
(noun.) meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean).
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Definition
(n.) 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.
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Examples
- There were abundant different sorts of an order of shellfish called brachiopods. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I found some shellfish on the shore, and ate them raw, not daring to kindle a fire, for fear of being discovered by the natives. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- There were abundant different sorts of an order of shellfish called brachiopods. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I found some shellfish on the shore, and ate them raw, not daring to kindle a fire, for fear of being discovered by the natives. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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