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mollusc

[ UK /mˈɒlʌsk/ ]
NOUN
  1. invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

How To Use mollusc In A Sentence

  • This South Wales operation uses hand-raking and sieving to harvest the molluscs.
  • The Journal is the most widely cited of all malacological journals and publishes papers dealing with all aspects of the study of molluscs.
  • These creatures are quite distinct from fish, crustaceans, and molluscs.
  • Small crustaceans and young molluscs make up the bulk of their diet, along with algal cells, which are ground up in the muscular gizzard at the beginning of the gut.
  • Most biologists are familiar with only a few of the approximately 40 extant animal phyla such as annelids, arthropods, molluscs, echinoderms and chordates.
  • Molluscs Molluscs belong to the largest phylum in the animal kingdom and are a very varied group of animals.
  • However, as early as 1923 Collip reported finding insulin-like activity in a bivalve mollusc, Mya arenaria.
  • Here we are with an echinoderm, a mollusc, and a chordate. Steve Steve and the Pirates and Philosophers of the Prairie - The Panda's Thumb
  • The smaller waders will feed on the bivalve molluscs and the little worms and that that are actually in the mud and sand.
  • In that time, the first undoubted fossil annelids, arthropods, brachiopods, echinoderms, molluscs, onychophorans, poriferans, and priapulids show up in rocks all over the world.
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