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shellfish

[shel-fish] / ˈʃɛlˌfɪʃ /


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Commercial glucosamine supplements can be produced from materials including shellfish shells or corn.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 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

It was particularly damaging for these fishermen because Dungeness crabs tend to be their most lucrative catch of the year, making the shellfish, Jardine said, a kind of “gilded trap.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 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

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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