shellfish

English

Cooked mussels

Etymology

From Middle English schellefyssch, from Old English sċielfisċ. Equivalent to shell +‎ fish.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛl.fɪʃ/

Noun

shellfish (countable and uncountable, plural shellfish or shellfishes)

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

Hypernyms

(food): seafood

Coordinate terms

(food): cartilaginous fish, finned fish, finfish, fish

Translations

aquatic food that has a shell

Afrikaans: skulpdier
Arabic: مَحَار‎ m (maḥār)
Belarusian: малю́ск m (maljúsk)
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
Burmese: ခရု (my) (hka.ru.)
Catalan: marisc (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 貝類／贝类 (zh) (bèilèi)
Danish: skaldyr (da) n
Dutch: schelpdier (nl) n
Esperanto: marisko
Faroese: skeljadjór n, skeljadýr n
Finnish: (no exact equivalent) äyriäinen (fi), simpukka (fi), osteri (fi); merenelävä (fi)
French: coquillage (fr) m, fruits de mer (fr)
Galician: marisco (gl) m
German: Schalentier (de) n, Krustentier (de) n
Greek: οστρακόδερμο (el) n (ostrakódermo)
Haitian Creole: fwidmè
Hindi: कस्तूरा (hi) (kastūrā)
Hungarian: kagyló (hu)
Indonesian: kerang (id)
Irish: sliogán (ga) m
Italian: crostaceo (it) m, mollusco (it) m
Japanese: 貝 (ja) (かい, kai), 甲殻類 (ja) (こうかくるい, kōkakurui)
Javanese: please add this translation if you can
Kannada: ಚಿಪ್ಪು ಮೀನು (cippu mīnu)
Korean: 조개 (ko) (jogae)
Lao: ຫອຍ (hōy)
Latin: concha f
Macedonian: школка f (školka)
Malay: kerang (ms), kerang-kerangan
Manx: eeast shliggagh m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skalldyr n
Nynorsk: skaldyr n
Old English: sċielfisċ m
Persian: صدف‌ماهی‎ (sadaf-mâhi)
Polish: skorupiak (pl) m
Portuguese: marisco (pt) m
Russian: моллю́ск (ru) m (molljúsk) (mollusc), ракообра́зное (ru) n (rakoobráznoje) (crustacean)
Scottish Gaelic: maorach m
Slovak: kôrovec m, mušľa f, mäkkýš (sk) m, článkonožec m
Spanish: marisco (es) m
Swahili: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: skaldjur (sv) n
Thai: หอย (th) (hɔ̌i)
Ukrainian: молю́ск m (moljúsk)
Vietnamese: ốc (vi)
Volapük: koanaf (vo)
Welsh: pysgodyn cragen m
West Frisian: skulpdier n