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Mollusc

Mollusc meaning

A soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically with a hard shell of one or more pieces. | A weak-willed person.

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Example sentences (7)

Reports of his tussle with the giant mollusc vary wildly, with one contending that by the time the stocky heavyweight lowered himself into the tank, the octopus was already dead (giving Galento a distinct edge).

Cymbulia peronii are none other than gastropods, one of the mollusc homoextracts, which usually live at depths of 150-600 meters, are elongated in shape, transparent and easily mistaken for glass.

Here’s what I got from five years of biology class : “mollusc” is Latin for “soft flesh” and how to identify and label a urethra.

Invertebrates exhibit a wide range of modifications to survive in poorly oxygenated waters including breathing tubes (see insect and mollusc siphons ) and gills ( Carcinus ).

The Pliocene deposits contain a mollusc fauna more Arctic than that which exists at the present time, indicating that the connection between the Pacific and Arctic Oceans was probably broader than it is now.

There are also high, often localized levels of mollusc endemism, especially in Hells Canyon and the basins of the Clearwater River, Salmon River, and middle Snake River.

This tissue enables a starfish to change from moving flexibly around the seabed to becoming rigid while prying open a bivalve mollusc or preventing itself from being extracted from a crevice.