shellfish
Noun
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Meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) (synset 107799186)
is a type of: seafood - edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etcsubtypes:
- 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
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Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell (synset 101943377)
is a type of: invertebrate - any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classificationsubtypes:
- 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; chitonshas:
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