shellfish vs rock lobster

rock lobster vs shellfish

shellfish and rock lobster both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
shellfish	Yes	No	No	No
rock lobster	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, rock lobster is a hyponym of shellfish; that is, rock lobster 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)
rock lobster: warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California

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

shellfish (noun)	rock lobster (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 rock lobster

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