shellfish
English Thesaurus
1. invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | invertebrate, |
| definition | : | any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | scaphopod, |
| definition | : | burrowing marine mollusk (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | gastropod, univalve, |
| definition | : | a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bivalve, lamellibranch, pelecypod, |
| definition | : | marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk, |
| definition | : | marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles (noun.animal) |
| part holonym | : | carapace, cuticle, shell, shield, |
| definition | : | hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles (noun.animal) |
| part holonym | : | shellfish, |
| definition | : | meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) (noun.food) |
2. meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) (noun.food)
| hypernym | : | seafood, |
| definition | : | edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | mussel, |
| definition | : | black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | huitre, oyster, |
| definition | : | edible body of any of numerous oysters (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | clam, |
| definition | : | flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | cockle, |
| definition | : | common edible European bivalve (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | crab, crabmeat, |
| definition | : | the edible flesh of any of various crabs (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | limpet, |
| definition | : | mollusk with a low conical shell (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | lobster, |
| definition | : | flesh of a lobster (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster, |
| definition | : | warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | escallop, scallop, scollop, |
| definition | : | edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces (noun.food) |
| part meronym | : | mollusc, mollusk, shellfish, |
| definition | : | invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell (noun.animal) |
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