mollusks
[ (mol-uhsks) ]
A phylum of invertebrates with soft bodies and muscular feet. Some mollusks also have hard shells. Oysters, clams, snails, slugs, octopuses, and squid are mollusks.
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Her instructions for “the perfect scallops” include “Season both sides and let those little marine bivalve mollusks chillax.”
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Chrissy Teigen Weds John Legend | Anna Klassen | September 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI will take her any day over the “educated class,” the bureaucratic mollusks and the defeatist sad sacks in Washington.
The land mollusks and the great order of insects and other land arthropods only to a minor extent dwell in the open light.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles MorrisMisfortune, Fatality, had willed that a drop of water thicker than the surrounding medium should pass through one of the mollusks.
Urania | Camille FlammarionOther fishes are bottom feeders, as the blackfish and the sea bass, living almost entirely upon mollusks and crustaceans.
A Civic Biology | George William Hunter
Hermaphrodite mollusks, with a marvellously complicated sexual apparatus, ought also to be studied separately.
The Natural Philosophy of Love | Remy de GourmontThese shells were once the homes of sea mollusks, as such soft, fleshy creatures are called.
Stories of California | Ella M. Sexton
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