Word Meanings - SHELLFISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.
Related words: (words related to SHELLFISH)
- WHOSESOEVER
The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever. - SHELL-LESS
, a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs. - ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - COVERLET
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - SHELLER
One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller. - COVERCLE
A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne. - AQUATIC
Pertaining to water growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls. - CRUSTACEOUS
Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell. - ANIMALCULIST
1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism. - ANIMAL
1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process - EXTERNAL
Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral. External angles. See under Angle. (more info) 1. Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external - COVERT BARON
Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. - SHELL
The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, - SHELLAPPLE
See SHELDAFLE - GOROON SHELL
A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell . - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - VALVE-SHELL
Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata. - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - SPOUTSHELL
Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera. - SMOTHER
Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick - ISOTHEROMBROSE
A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - SLIT-SHELL
Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - ISOTHERMAL
Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram - MASK SHELL
Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.