Word

shellfish, n.

invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
<noun.animal>

mollusc mollusk shellfish

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part meronym

shell, carapace, cuticle, shield shellfish

hypernym

member holonym

Mollusca, phylum Mollusca

hyponym

scaphopod gastropod, univalve chiton, coat-of-mail shell, sea cradle, polyplacophore bivalve, pelecypod, lamellibranch cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk

meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
<noun.food>

shellfish

semantic pointers

part holonym

mollusk, mollusc, shellfish

hypernym

hyponym

mussel huitre, oyster clam cockle crab, crabmeat crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse limpet lobster spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish scallop, scollop, escallop