shellfish — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

1. A fisheries and colloquial term for an aquatic invertebrate having an inner or outer shell, such as a mollusc or crustacean, especially when edible.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

2. A culinary and nutritional term for several groups of non-piscine, non-tetrapod, aquatic animals that are used as a food source. The term often exclusively refers to edible aquatic crustaceans, bivalve mollusks and cephalopod mollusks; but sometimes echinoderms may be included as well.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

Substantivo

1. meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)

   Termos mais gerais

   seafood

2. invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

   Sinônimos

   molluskmollusc

   Termos mais gerais

   invertebrate