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Thesaurus: shellfish

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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  1. 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.
  2. n. meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
  3. n. invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
  4. 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.
  5. Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell,either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, orcrustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.
  6. n:100 n. meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)