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shellfish vs seafood

seafood vs shellfish

shellfish and seafood both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
shellfish Yes No No No
seafood Yes No No No
As nouns, seafood is a hypernym of shellfish; that is, seafood is a word with a broader meaning than shellfish:
  • shellfish: meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
  • seafood: edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
shellfish (noun) seafood (noun)
invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
Difference between shellfish and seafood

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