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seafood vs shellfish

shellfish vs seafood

seafood and shellfish both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
seafood Yes No No No
shellfish Yes No No No
As nouns, shellfish is a hyponym of seafood; that is, shellfish is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than seafood:
  • seafood: edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
  • shellfish: meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
seafood (noun) shellfish (noun)
edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
Difference between seafood and shellfish

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