shellfish vs crawfish

crawfish vs shellfish

shellfish and crawfish both are nouns.

shellfish is not a verb while crawfish is a verb.

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

As nouns, crawfish is a hyponym of shellfish; that is, crawfish 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)
crawfish: tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly

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

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

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

Difference between shellfish and crawfish

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