Associations to the word «Shellfish»

Wiktionary

SHELLFISH, noun. An aquatic invertebrate, such as a mollusc or crustacean, that has a shell, especially as food.

Dictionary definition

SHELLFISH, noun. Meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean).
SHELLFISH, noun. Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats