Noun
shellfish -
meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
seafood edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
mollusc ,
mollusk ,
shellfish invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
mussel marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc.
huitre ,
oyster edible body of any of numerous oysters
clam burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness
cockle common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
crabmeat ,
crab a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply; "he caught a crab and lost the race"
crawdad ,
ecrevisse ,
crawfish ,
crayfish small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
limpet any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas
lobster any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
langouste ,
rock lobster ,
spiny lobster ,
crayfish large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
shellfish -
invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
mollusk ,
mollusc
invertebrate any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification
mollusca ,
phylum mollusca gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons
carapace ,
cuticle ,
shield ,
shell hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
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
coat-of-mail shell ,
polyplacophore ,
sea cradle ,
chiton 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
