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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.
Also, mol·lusc.
Related forms
mol·lusk·like, adjective
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Mollusk
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Example Sentences
- In more recent decades, however, a lowly mollusk has reigned as king.
- When it comes to hard stares and stony gazes, no animal can match the chiton, a small mollusk with eyes made of rock crystal.
- New photos offer the best evidence yet of mollusk aeronautics.
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Word Origin & History
mollusk
1783, from Fr. mollusque, from Mod.L. Mollusca, order name, adopted by Linnæus 1758 from L. mollusca, neut. pl. of molluscus "thin-shelled," from mollis "soft," from PIE base *mel-/*mol-/*ml- "grind." Linnæus applied the word to a heterogeneous group of invertebrates, not originally including
EXPANDmollusks with shells; the modern scientific use is after a classification proposed 1790s by Fr. naturalist Georges Léopole Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, Baron Cuvier (1769-1832).
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mollusk or mollusc  (mŏl'əsk) Pronunciation Key
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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