[
US
/ˈʃɛɫˌfɪʃ/
]
[ UK /ʃˈɛlfɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /ʃˈɛlfɪʃ/ ]
NOUN
- meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
- invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
How To Use shellfish In A Sentence
- Moray eels, nudibranchs, stingrays, shellfish, sea urchins and sea stars were out and about, while the polyps of black corals and other gorgonians were feeding.
- Waitrose, for example, has made a real and commendable effort to source sustainable fish and shellfish across the board. Times, Sunday Times
- Particularly good dusted over fish and shellfish, or with couscous salad. Times, Sunday Times
- Tightly wrap or store in covered containers all cooked meat, poultry, and fish and shellfish and refrigerate them promptly.
- For at least 40,000 years, they gathered shellfish and peacefully slept under the stars.
- A good combination is salmon, a white fish and shellfish.
- They winter in open, coastal environments, favoring bays and inlets with sandy shores and shellfish beds.
- These were used for storing shellfish after they had been collected from nearby saltmarsh creeks and before they were taken to markets.
- Seafood ingestion syndromes such as diarrhetic shellfish poisoning, ciguatera poisoning, and scombroid poisoning also can cause diarrhea in travelers.
- In contrast to soba, which tastes distinctly of buckwheat, the flavour of udon is neutral, allowing any number of variations in the additional ingredients, such as vegetables, seaweeds, eggs, fish, shellfish, poultry.