单词 | shellfish |
释义 | shellfish (once / 9665 pages) n WORD FAMILY shellfish USAGE EXAMPLESCarting away driftwood or other souvenirs is often prohibited, and shellfish collecting is legal only at certain times and requires a state-issued license. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) Allergies to finned fish are also common but do not appear to be linked to shellfish allergies. New York Times(Dec 12, 2016) The State of New Jersey says you can’t eat the fish or shellfish from the Lower Passaic River and Newark Bay. New York Times(Dec 09, 2016) 1n invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell Syn|Hypo|Hyper mollusc, mollusk scaphopod burrowing marine mollusk gastropod, univalvea class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes chiton, coat-of-mail shell, polyplacophore, sea cradleprimitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates bivalve, lamellibranch, pelecypodmarine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together cephalopod, cephalopod molluskmarine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles tooth shell, tusk shellany of various seashore mollusks having a tapering tubular shell open at each end and a foot pointed like a spade for burrowing abalone, ear-shellany of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior conchany of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip snailfreshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell slugany of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell seasnailany of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moon shells; neritids Ancylus fluviatilis, freshwater limpet, river limpetminute conical gastropod superficially resembling a limpet but living and feeding on freshwater plants nudibranch, sea slugany of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body Aplysia punctata, sea harenaked marine gastropod having a soft body with reduced internal shell and two pairs of ear-like tentacles bubble shellmarine gastropod mollusk having a very small thin shell physaany member of the genus Physa cowrie, cowryany of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells aplacophoran, solenogasterdeep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle clamburrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness cocklecommon edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs oystermarine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters ark shellmarine bivalve mollusk having a heavy toothed shell with a deep boat-like inner surface blood clamred-blooded clam musselmarine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc. escallop, scallop, scollopedible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions piddockmarine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells chambered nautilus, nautilus, pearly nautiluscephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions dibranch, dibranchiate, dibranchiate molluskcephalopods having two gills octopoda cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell decapodcephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones invertebrate any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification 2n meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) Hypo|Hyper mussel black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine huitre, oysteredible body of any of numerous oysters clamflesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams cocklecommon edible European bivalve crab, crabmeatthe edible flesh of any of various crabs crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, ecrevissetiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly limpetmollusk with a low conical shell lobsterflesh of a lobster crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobsterwarm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California escallop, scallop, scollopedible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces oysters Rockefelleroysters spread with butter and spinach and seasonings and baked on the half shell blue point, bluepointoysters originally from Long Island Sound but now from anywhere along the northeastern seacoast; usually eaten raw hard-shell clam, quahaug, quahog, round clamAtlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes long-neck clam, soft-shell clam, steamer, steamer clama clam that is usually steamed in the shell blue crabAtlantic crab; most common source of fresh crabmeat crab legslegs of especially Alaska king crabs soft-shell crab, soft-shelled crabfreshly molted crab with new shell still tender and flexible Japanese crabcrabmeat usually canned; from Japan Alaska crab, Alaska king crab, Alaskan king crab, king crabmeat of large cold-water crab; mainly leg meat Dungeness crabflesh of Cancer magister (Dungeness crab) stone crabpale flesh with delicate texture and flavor; found in Florida but now very rare American lobster, Maine lobster, Northern lobsterflesh of cold-water lobsters having large tender claws; caught from Maine to the Carolinas European lobstersimilar to but smaller than American lobsters Norwegian lobster, langoustine, scampocaught in European waters; slenderer than American lobster lobster taillobster tail meat; usually from spiny rock lobsters sea scallopmuscle of large deep-water scallops bay scallopmuscle of small choice shallow-water scallops seafood edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc |
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