Cooked mussels
Etymology
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From Middle English schellefyssch, from Old English sċielfisċ. Equivalent to shell + fish.
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˈʃɛl.fɪʃ/, [ʃɛɫˑfɪʃ]
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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.
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Translations
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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
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