Definition of shellfish

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Shellfish (n.) 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..

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Cunner :: Cunner (n.) A small shellfish; the limpet or patella.
Beard :: Beard (v. t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.
Scaup :: Scaup (n.) A bed or stratum of shellfish; scalp.
Limpet :: Limpet (n.) Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order Docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides..
Beard :: Beard (n.) The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle..
Dolabriform :: Dolabriform (a.) Shaped like the head of an ax or hatchet, as some leaves, and also certain organs of some shellfish..
Finfish :: Finfish (n.) True fish, as distinguished from shellfish..
Cestraciont :: Cestraciont (n.) A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and a similar one found in California are living examples..
Testaceography :: Testaceography (n.) The science which treats of testaceans, or shellfish; the description of shellfish..
Shellfish :: Shellfish (n.) 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..
Testacea :: Testacea (n. pl.) Invertebrate animals covered with shells, especially mollusks; shellfish..
Dodman :: Dodman (n.) Any shellfish which casts its shell, as a lobster..
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