Shellfish is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHELLFISH in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a shelled aquatic invertebrate, esp. a mollusc or crustacean, or such animals collectively
• an aquatic shelled mollusc (e.g. an oyster or cockle) or crustacean (e.g. a crab or shrimp), especially one that is edible
• shellfish as food
• sea-living animal, esp one that can be eaten, with a shell
• 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.
• meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
• invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an aquatic invertebrate animal with a shell; an edible mollusk or crustacean

Words related to SHELLFISH

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Words that contain SHELLFISH

shellfishes20 shellfishery24 shellfisheries23

How to use SHELLFISH in a sentence

• The only food they were able to procure consisted in a few muscles and other shell-fish, which they picked up along the shore.
• Shellfish was abundant on the flats in Wreck Bay but we were unsuccessful with the hook and line, although surrounded by fish of various descriptions.
• Yet the oran otang and the preacher monkey often descend to the sea to devour what shell-fish they may find strewed upon the shores.
• In his primitive savage condition, living for the most part on fruits, roots, shell-fish, man was in possession of a fact which was certain eventually to insure his civilization.
• In feeding, they bob head downward in the water with their tails straight up in the air, to find the roots, seeds, insects, small shell-fish, and other things they like to eat.
• I had seen a shell-fish on the shore, resembling the oyster, or muscle.
• I therefore directed them to stroll about the beach for an hour or two and to collect oysters or shellfish.
• The rain fell in torrents during the greater part of the evening, and the men spent the time in searching for oysters and shellfish with which to appease their hunger.
• We must have shell-fish, you know, to keep the aquarium clean.
• THE LITTLE JACKAL AND THE ALLIGATOR The little Jackal was very fond of shell-fish.
• For three weeks these people lived almost entirely on shellfish.
• The few shell-fish that we saw, were chiefly converted into ornaments, though they neither had beauty nor novelty to recommend them.
• Their greatest reliance seems to be upon the sea, as affording fish, muscles, and smaller shell-fish, and sea-animals.
• In winter, when a long storm renders it impossible to obtain shell-fish, any woman who is feeble will steal off and hide in the mountains.
• There is another story of how the men hid in mountain caves all those weeks, kept alive by the warmth of hot springs, feeding on clams and shell-fish gathered at night.
• The tide was falling and screaming gulls rose and fell over the rocks feeding on the shellfish among the seaweed.
• Everyone but Ellen appeared to be standing well the enforced diet of bread and shellfish upon which they were now living.
• Their principal subsistence was turtle and small fish, which they caught with hook and line, and shellfish which abound on the reefs.
• There were plenty of shell-fish and eggs among the rocks and on the beach.
• At Wattamolla they had halted to cook a scanty meal of shell-fish, and the smoke of their fire revealed their presence to a fishing boat from the settlement at Port Jackson.
• Aasta walked towards him slowly, bending down now and again as though she were gathering shellfish.
• Goddard and I went to the beach and got a bag of shellfish, but found it very difficult to get back to the camp through the mangroves, we were in so weak a state.
• But these are only a small portion of the shellfish collected here.
• Of course the fish that frequented the pools, and the shell-fish that covered the rock, became subjects of much attention, and, in some cases, of earnest study.
• The older boys he sends to their villages for food and shell-fish, and the little ones remain to learn, as if they were in a school.
• It seems that this place is famous for its shell-fish, and I can only say that I never tasted anything more delicious than the crab in question.

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