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shellfish meaning in Bengali

শেলফিশ śelphiś

/ˈʃɛl.fɪʃ/

shellfish in Bengali: শেলফিশ (śelphiś). In English, shellfish means a fisheries and colloquial term for an aquatic invertebrate having an inner or outer shell, such as a mollusc or crustacean, especially when edible.

Bengali words for shellfish

aquatic food that has a shell
শেলফিশ śelphiś

English meaning of shellfish

  1. noun A fisheries and colloquial term for an aquatic invertebrate having an inner or outer shell, such as a mollusc or crustacean, especially when edible.
  2. noun A culinary and nutritional term for several groups of non-piscine, non-tetrapod, aquatic animals that are used as a food source. The term often exclusively refers to edible aquatic crustaceans, bivalve mollusks and cephalopod mollusks; but sometimes echinoderms may be included as well.

Full definition of shellfish

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Questions about shellfish in Bengali

What is the meaning of shellfish in Bengali?
Shellfish in Bengali is শেলফিশ (śelphiś).
shellfish এর বাংলা অর্থ কী?
Shellfish: শেলফিশ (śelphiś).
What does shellfish mean in English?
Shellfish means a fisheries and colloquial term for an aquatic invertebrate having an inner or outer shell, such as a mollusc or crustacean, especially when edible.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shellfish (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Bengali words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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