shellfish
shell·fish
noun
1.
meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
2.
invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
Origin
Inherited from Middle English schellefyssch, from Old English sċielfisċ. Equivalent to shell + fish.
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