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shellfishes

  • plural
    of shellfish.
    shellfish
    noun
    an aquatic animal having a shell, as the oyster and other mollusks and the lobster and other crustaceans.

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Here sea creatures come to live, fishes swim hungrily to and fro, and shellfishes die in the mud which, by and by, is to become firm rock with stony animal remains embedded in it.

From Eighth Reader by James Baldwin