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mollusk
[ mol-uhsk ]
noun
- any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
mollusk
/ mŏl′əsk /
- Any of numerous invertebrate animals of the phylum Mollusca, usually living in water and often having a hard outer shell. They have a muscular foot, a well-developed circulatory and nervous system, and often complex eyes. Mollusks include gastropods (snails and shellfish), slugs, octopuses, squids, and the extinct ammonites. Mollusks appear in the fossil record in the early Cambrian Period, but it is not known from what group they evolved.
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Other Words From
- mol·lus·kan mol·lus·can [m, uh, -, luhs, -k, uh, n], adjective noun
- mollusk·like adjective
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Example Sentences
It's at a time like this that Germans yearn most for Paul the Octopus, the great mollusk soothsayer for Germany.
You could be a generalist—a poet/mollusk scientist/seafarer/surgeon.
At low tide we saw a large mollusk-shell traveling toward the shore, and wondered why such unaccustomed speed in its movements.
The mollusk of Canada Pliocene clay has undergone no change since its first appearance upon our globe.
The Chiton ruber, a jointed mollusk, was also found here, and five species of sea-anemones were counted.
He desired the shell of the mollusk that burrowed in the cleft of the cliff.
He had lain there in the sand for some time, as motionless as a mollusk at low water.
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