Usually means: Aquatic invertebrates with exoskeletons, edible.
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  1. shellfishes: Merriam-Webster
  2. shellfishes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. shellfishes: Wiktionary
  4. shellfishes: Dictionary.com
  5. shellfishes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shellfish)

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.
▸ Also see shellfish


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