univalve vs shellfish

shellfish vs univalve

univalve and shellfish both are nouns.

univalve is an adjective but shellfish is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, shellfish is a hypernym of univalve; that is, shellfish is a word with a broader meaning than univalve:

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

Other hypernyms of univalve include mollusc, mollusk.

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

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

Difference between univalve and shellfish

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