shellfish vs clam

clam vs shellfish

shellfish and clam both are nouns.

shellfish is not a verb while clam is a verb.

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

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

shellfish: meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
clam: flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams

Other hyponyms of shellfish include mussel, huitre, oyster, cockle, crab, crabmeat, crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, ecrevisse, limpet, lobster, crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster, escallop, scallop, scollop.

shellfish (noun)	clam (noun)
invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell	burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness
meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)	flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams
	a piece of paper money worth one dollar

shellfish (verb)	clam (verb)
	gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean

Difference between shellfish and clam

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