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Mollusc

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Variant of mollusk.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

n. A weak-willed person.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Same as mollusk.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. See mollusk.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

Word Usage

"In each case the mollusc is a loose fit in its burrow, having ample room for rotation, but the aperture of the latter is what is known as a cassinian oval, and generally projects slightly above the surface of the coral."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

invertebrate

Variant

mollusk

Hyponym

scaphopod coat-of-mail shell pelecypod cephalopod mollusk chiton

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