Get to know Mollusc better with 7 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like mollusk or shellfish.
Mollusc in a sentence
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Mollusc meaning
- A soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically with a hard shell of one or more pieces.
- A weak-willed person.
Synonyms of Mollusc
Using Mollusc
- The main meaning on this page is: A soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically with a hard shell of one or more pieces. | A weak-willed person.
- Useful related words include: mollusk, shellfish, invertebrate.
Context around Mollusc
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mollusc
- In this selection, "mollusc" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, giant, class, bivalve, vary, homoextracts and siphons stand out and add context to how "mollusc" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bivalve mollusc or preventing and biology class mollusc is latin. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mollusc" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mollusc
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Invertebrates exhibit a wide range of modifications to survive in poorly oxygenated waters including breathing tubes (see insect and mollusc siphons ) and gills ( Carcinus ). (24 words)
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. (25 words)
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. (27 words)
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). (35 words)
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. (34 words)
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. (31 words)
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.