coquillage

Definitions of coquillage
  1. noun
    meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
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    types:
    crabe
    the edible flesh of any of various crabs
    écrevisse
    tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
    type of:
    poisson et fruits de mer
    edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
  2. noun
    the shell of a marine organism
    synonyms: coquille d'escargot, coquille de mer
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    type of:
    carapace, coque, gousse, écale
    the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
  3. noun
    invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
    synonyms: mollusque
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    types:
    gastéropode
    a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes
    pieuvre
    marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles
    escargot
    freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
    type of:
    invertébré
    any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification
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