Shellfish vs Oyster - What's the difference?
shellfish | oyster |
An aquatic invertebrate, such as a mollusc or crustacean, that has a shell, especially as food.
Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.
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The delicate morsel of dark meat contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
A pale beige color tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
(colloquial, by analogy) A person who keeps secrets.
As nouns the difference between shellfish and oyster
is that shellfish is an aquatic invertebrate, such as a mollusc or crustacean, that has a shell, especially as food while oyster is any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.As an adjective oyster is
of a pale beige colour tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.As a verb oyster is
to fish for oysters.shellfish
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* (wikipedia "shellfish")oyster
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Alternative forms
* oystre (obsolete) * erster (New York City and New Orleans)Noun
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- He was a bold man that first ate an oyster .