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shellfish

[shel-fish] / ˈʃɛlˌfɪʃ /


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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

For the adventurous and industrious, from October to March, the town sells $50-a-week shellfish permits for recreational scalloping.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 20, 2026

Commercial glucosamine supplements are often produced from materials such as shellfish shells or corn.

From Science Daily Jun. 10, 2026

Tilstone said this could be taken advantage of by certain species which were harmful to humans, fish and shellfish.

From BBC Apr. 15, 2026

She leaves and then comes back with a huge tray of side plates, prepared vegetables and shellfish and seaweed and four or five kinds of kimchee.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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 Baldwin, James




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