shellfish

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. countable,uncountable
  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. countable,uncountable

词形变化

shellfish plural shellfishes plural

词汇关系

上位词
seafood
衍生词
shellfisher shellfishery shellfishing
并列词
cartilaginous fish finned fish finfish fish

词源

Inherited from Middle English schellefyssch, from Old English sċielfisċ. Equivalent to shell + fish.
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