| mollusc | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. mollusc, mollusk, shellfish | invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell. |
| ~ carapace, cuticle, shell, shield | hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles. |
| ~ invertebrate | any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification. |
| ~ mollusca, phylum mollusca | gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons. |
| ~ scaphopod | burrowing marine mollusk. |
| ~ gastropod, univalve | a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes. |
| ~ coat-of-mail shell, polyplacophore, sea cradle, chiton | primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates. |
| ~ bivalve, lamellibranch, pelecypod | marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together. |
| ~ cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk | marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles. |
| ~ shellfish | meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean). |
| mollusk | | |
| seashell | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. seashell | the shell of a marine organism. |
| ~ shell | the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod. |
| shellfish | | |
| n. (food) | 1. shellfish | meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean). |
| ~ mollusc, mollusk, shellfish | invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell. |
| ~ seafood | edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc. |
| ~ mussel | black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine. |
| ~ huitre, oyster | edible body of any of numerous oysters. |
| ~ clam | flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams. |
| ~ cockle | common edible European bivalve. |
| ~ crabmeat, crab | the edible flesh of any of various crabs. |
| ~ crawdad, crawfish, ecrevisse, crayfish | tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly. |
| ~ limpet | mollusk with a low conical shell. |
| ~ lobster | flesh of a lobster. |
| ~ crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster | warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California. |
| ~ escallop, scollop, scallop | edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces. |
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