shellfish

shellfish is a 9-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 18 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.
2. noun. invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

   Synonyms: mollusc, mollusk

3. noun. meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)

Synonyms

mollusc, mollusk

Common word forms

shellfishes

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