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Definition of Mollusks
1. mollusk [n] - See also: mollusk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mollusks
Literary usage of Mollusks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"The Recent and fossil mollusks of the genus Bittium from the west coast of America.
... 191 Id. New mollusks of the genus A ells from the North Atlantic. ..."
2. Labrador, the Country and the People by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1909)
"Several annotated catalogues of the mollusks of Labrador have been published.
... The list contains seventy-eight species of mollusks. In 1807. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1921)
"mollusks from I*ke ( 'ha- pala. State of Jalisco, and vu nut v. 192. Mollusca from
C'entrai America ami MI-MI n. l!l/i. Polier, Julian K.. elected a meml>er ..."
4. Structural and Systematic Conchology: An Introduction to the Study of the by George Washington Tryon (1882)
"Whilst in Europe the elevation beyond which mollusks cannot exist is about 8000
feet, in America and Asia they are collected at nearly double that altitude. ..."
5. The Microscope and its revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1881)
"Organs of St'ime nf mollusks.—Some of the minuter anil more rudimentary forms of
the special organs of sight, hearing, and touch, ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"They all belong to the great division of mollusks which are called Pulmonata,
from the fact of their breathing with lung-like vessels. ..."
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