shellfish vs crayfish

crayfish vs shellfish

shellfish and crayfish both are nouns.

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

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

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

shellfish (noun)	crayfish (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
	warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California

Difference between shellfish and crayfish

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