甲殻類 — meaning in English
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English meaning
- crustacean noun A hard-shelled creature such as a crab, lobster, shrimp, or barnacle, mostly living in water.
- shellfish noun An aquatic animal with a shell, such as a crab, mussel, or oyster, especially one eaten as food.
Senses
甲殻類 is used for these senses in English:
- crustacean Any arthropod of the subphylum Crustacea, including lobsters, crabs, shrimp, barnacles and woodlice, traditionally excluding hexapods.
- shellfish 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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