shellfish
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Commercial glucosamine supplements can be produced from materials including shellfish shells or corn.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
BBC News has seen samples of stolen "fitness-for-work" medical examinations containing information such as blood and urine test results, along with doctors' notes mentioning conditions including a "shellfish and banana allergy".
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
During his $45 two-hour tours that embark from a dock at Schooner Landing, Holmes offers a steady patter of oyster-related wisecracks, as his partner, Olga Oros, shucks and hands out shellfish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
For my final shellfish meal, I joined the evening crowd at the Shuck Station, a seasonal restaurant in a former gas station owned by Brendan Parsons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Fred moved closer to Dad and the squirming shellfish.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
Here sea creatures come to live, fishes swim hungrily to and fro, and shellfishes die in the mud which, by and by, is to become firm rock with stony animal remains embedded in it.
From Eighth Reader by James Baldwin
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