shellfish vs univalve

univalve vs shellfish

shellfish and univalve both are nouns.

shellfish is not an adjective while univalve is an adjective.

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

As nouns, univalve is a hyponym of shellfish; that is, univalve is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than shellfish:

shellfish: invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
univalve: a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes

Other hyponyms of shellfish include scaphopod, gastropod, chiton, coat-of-mail shell, polyplacophore, sea cradle, bivalve, lamellibranch, pelecypod, cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk.

shellfish (noun)	univalve (noun)
invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell	a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes
meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)

shellfish (adjective)	univalve (adjective)
	used of mollusks, especially gastropods, as snails etc.

Difference between shellfish and univalve

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