shellfish meaning in Sinhala
බෙල්ලා bellā
/ˈʃɛl.fɪʃ/
shellfish in Sinhala: බෙල්ලා (bellā). 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.
Sinhala words for shellfish
- shellfish
- බෙල්ලා bellā
English meaning of shellfish
- 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.
- 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.
shellfish in other languages
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- shellfish in Vietnamese
- shellfish in Myanmar
Questions about shellfish in Sinhala
- What is the meaning of shellfish in Sinhala?
- Shellfish in Sinhala is බෙල්ලා (bellā).
- shellfish යන්නෙහි සිංහල තේරුම කුමක්ද?
- Shellfish: බෙල්ලා (bellā).
- 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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Sinhala words from Wiktionary's Sinhala entries whose English meaning is “shellfish”: බෙල්ලා. 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 Sinhala words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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