shellfish vs scallop

scallop vs shellfish

shellfish and scallop both are nouns.

shellfish is not a verb while scallop is a verb.

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

As nouns, scallop is a hyponym of shellfish; that is, scallop 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)
scallop: edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces

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

shellfish (noun)	scallop (noun)
invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell	edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)	edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
	thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
	one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)

shellfish (verb)	scallop (verb)
	shape or cut in scallops
	fish for scallops
	form scallops in
	decorate an edge with scallops
	bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top

Difference between shellfish and scallop

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