shellfish
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Commercial glucosamine supplements can be produced from materials including shellfish shells or corn.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
The bounty came not just from Glidden’s 40-acre oyster operation, where the shellfish grow in cages on the Damariscotta’s surface and bottom, but from neighbors up and down the river.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Domoic acid can accumulate in shellfish and cause nausea, diarrhea and illness in humans when consumed at low levels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
The heat has warmed the lagoons, boosting the growth of algae that cover the shellfish.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
I sketched the details of my evening for the detective, telling him about my homework and the time I’d spent doing research on the effects of radiation on shellfish in the Pacific.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
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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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