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shellfish meaning in Punjabi

ਸ਼ੈੱਲਫਿਸ਼

/ˈʃɛl.fɪʃ/

shellfish in Punjabi: ਸ਼ੈੱਲਫਿਸ਼. 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.

Punjabi words for shellfish

ਸ਼ੈੱਲਫਿਸ਼

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.

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Questions about shellfish in Punjabi

What is the meaning of shellfish in Punjabi?
Shellfish in Punjabi is ਸ਼ੈੱਲਫਿਸ਼.
shellfish ਦਾ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਕੀ ਅਰਥ ਹੈ?
Shellfish: ਸ਼ੈੱਲਫਿਸ਼.
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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Punjabi words: machine translation by IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT license), kept only when it translates back to “shellfish”. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: shellfish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Punjabi words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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