crawfish vs shellfish

shellfish vs crawfish

crawfish and shellfish both are nouns.

crawfish is a verb but shellfish is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
crawfish	Yes	No	Yes	No
shellfish	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, shellfish is a hypernym of crawfish; that is, shellfish is a word with a broader meaning than crawfish:

crawfish: tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
shellfish: meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)

crawfish (noun)	shellfish (noun)
large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters	invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster	meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly

crawfish (verb)	shellfish (verb)
make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

Difference between crawfish and shellfish

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