invertebrate vs shellfish

shellfish vs invertebrate

invertebrate and shellfish both are nouns.

invertebrate is an adjective but shellfish is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, shellfish is a hyponym of invertebrate; that is, shellfish is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than invertebrate:

invertebrate: any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification
shellfish: invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

Other hyponyms of invertebrate include arthropod, zoophyte, parazoan, poriferan, sponge, cnidarian, coelenterate, comb jelly, ctenophore, worm, borer, woodborer, rotifer, mollusc, mollusk, phoronid, bryozoan, moss animal, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss, ectoproct, entoproct, Symbion pandora, brachiopod, lamp shell, lampshell, peanut worm, sipunculid, echinoderm.

invertebrate (noun)	shellfish (noun)
any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification	invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
	meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)

invertebrate (adjective)	shellfish (adjective)
lacking a backbone or spinal column

Difference between invertebrate and shellfish

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