shellfish

1. is a type of: seafood - edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
   subtypes:

   • mussel - black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine
   • huitre, oyster - edible body of any of numerous oysters
   • clam - flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams
   • cockle - common edible European bivalve
   • crab, crabmeat - the edible flesh of any of various crabs
   • crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, ecrevisse - tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
   • limpet - mollusk with a low conical shell
   • lobster - flesh of a lobster
   • crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster - warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
   • escallop, scallop, scollop - edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
   is a part of: mollusc, mollusk, shellfish - invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
2. is a type of: invertebrate - any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification
   subtypes:

   • scaphopod - burrowing marine mollusk
   • gastropod, univalve - a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes
   • chiton, coat-of-mail shell, polyplacophore, sea cradle - primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates
   • bivalve, lamellibranch, pelecypod - marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together
   • cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk - marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles
   belongs to: mollusca, phylum mollusca - gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons
   has:

   • carapace, cuticle, shell, shield - hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
   • shellfish - meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
   same as: mollusc, mollusk

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