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Shellfish

noun

(pl. shellfish)

Meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean).

Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell. Synonyms: mollusc, mollusk.

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"Shellfish" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Barzilla and me have come to shed the farewell tear. As hirelin's of soulless corporations, meanin' the Old Home House at Wellmouth and the Ocean House at Orham, we've engaged all the shellfish along-shore and ...

— The Depot Master • Joseph C. Lincoln

... all for shellfish them days, and I see some big mussels attached to the rocks, it bein' low water. Some o' them mussels, when ye gut 'em same as ye would deep-sea clams, make the nicest ...

— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper

... ship's stores, and he caught good fish in the larger lake. He also tried deep sea fishing from the dinghy, but the big fellows bit so fast that it soon ceased to be of interest. The fish, though, added freshness and variety to his larder, and he also found shellfish, good and wholesome when eaten in small quantities, ...

— The Sun Of Quebec - A Story of a Great Crisis • Joseph A. Altsheler

... and the trunks of uprooted trees, they took hides and timber and fashioned boats and launched forth to win their food. They lowered nets and wicker pots through the heaving floor deep into the twilight, and, groping across their remembered fields, drew pollack and conger, shellfish and whiting from rocks where shepherds had sat to watch their sheep, or tinners gathered at noonday for talk and dinner. At first it was as if a man returning at night to his house and, finding it unlit, should feel in the familiar cupboard for food and start ...

— The Laird's Luck • Arthur Quiller-Couch

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