Usually means: Aquatic animals with shells, edible.
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  1. shellfish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shellfish: Merriam-Webster
  3. shellfish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shellfish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shellfish: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shellfish: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shellfish, shellfish: Wordnik
  8. shellfish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shellfish: Wiktionary
  10. shellfish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shellfish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shellfish: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shellfish: Dictionary.com
  14. shellfish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Shellfish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shellfish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shellfish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shellfish: Rhymezone
  19. shellfish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. shellfish: FreeDictionary.org
  21. shellfish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. shellfish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. shellfish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. shellfish: Medical dictionary

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  1. shellfish: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See shellfishes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A fisheries and colloquial term for an aquatic invertebrate having an inner or outer shell, such as a mollusc or crustacean, especially when edible.
noun:  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.

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