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Definition of Mollusk
1. Noun. Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell.
Terms within: Carapace, Cuticle, Shell, Shield, Shellfish
Generic synonyms: Invertebrate
Group relationships: Mollusca, Phylum Mollusca
Specialized synonyms: Scaphopod, Gastropod, Univalve, Chiton, Coat-of-mail Shell, Polyplacophore, Sea Cradle, Bivalve, Lamellibranch, Pelecypod, Cephalopod, Cephalopod Mollusk
Definition of Mollusk
1. n. One of the Mollusca.
Definition of Mollusk
1. Noun. (American English) (alternative spelling of mollusc) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mollusk
1. any of a phylum of soft-bodied invertebrates [n -S]
Medical Definition of Mollusk
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mollusk
Literary usage of Mollusk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Popular Science Monthly (1904)
"HAVING recently completed a census of the land and fresh-water mollusk-fauna of
Eastern Siberia and Alaska, together with a discussion of the relations of ..."
2. Geological Biology: An Introduction to the Geological History of Organisms by Henry Shaler Williams (1895)
"Supposed Characteristics of the Primitive mollusk.—In this earliest mollusk
bilateral symmetry was fully developed. The nervous system was expressed in ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1861)
"Frequent distortion is imparted to the shell, more especially to the di-'-c end
of it, the seat of the mollusk, according to the circumstances of its place ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Some bivalves, such as the fresh-water mussel Unio, go through a parasitic stage
in their development. A very aberrant form of bivalve mollusk is ..."
5. Fresh Water Fishes and Their Ecology by Stephen Alfred Forbes (1914)
"This is so generally true that one may even tell whether or not a sucker is a
mollusk-eater by looking at its gill- rakers, although these have nothing to ..."
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