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Mollusk

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

n. Any of numerous chiefly marine invertebrates of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a soft unsegmented body, a mantle, and a protective calcareous shell and including the edible shellfish and the snails.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Alternative spelling of mollusc.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One of the Mollusca.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A soft-bodied animal, usually with an external shell; a member of the Mollusca in any sense. See Mollusca.

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

"Casillas raised a red and yellow carton cutout of Octopus Paul, the mollusk from the German zoo that predicted"

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

invertebrate

Cross Reference

articulated mollusks neural mollusks hemal mollusks

Variant

mollusc

Hyponym

scaphopod coat-of-mail shell pelecypod cephalopod mollusk chiton

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

shellfish periwinkle mollusca rotifer diatoms