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UK
/mˈɒlʌsk/
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NOUN
- 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.