Shellfish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shellfish \Shell"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
     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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shellfish
       n 1: meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially
            a mollusk or crustacean)
       2: invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed
          in a shell [syn: {mollusk}, {mollusc}]
       [also: {shellfishes} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "shellfish":
     Dungeness crab, Japanese crab, blue point, clam, coquillage, crab,
     crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, langouste, limpet, littleneck clam,
     lobster, mussel, oyster, periwinkle, prawn, quahog, scallop,
     shrimp, snail, soft-shell crab, steamer, whelk