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shellfish vs langouste

langouste vs shellfish

shellfish and langouste both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
shellfish Yes No No No
langouste Yes No No No
As nouns, langouste is a hyponym of shellfish; that is, langouste 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)
  • langouste: warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
shellfish (noun) langouste (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) 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 langouste

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