shellfish
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(noun) meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) |
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Related Words: clam, cockle, crab, crabmeat, crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, ecrevisse, huitre, langouste, limpet, lobster, mussel, oyster, rock lobster, scallop, scollop, seafood, spiny lobster |
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(noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell |
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Synonyms: mollusc, mollusk |
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Related Words: bivalve, cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk, chiton, coat-of-mail shell, gastropod, invertebrate, lamellibranch, pelecypod, polyplacophore, scaphopod, sea cradle, univalve |
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