Mollusc Synonyms

mäləsk
Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. mollusk
  2. shellfish

Words Related to Mollusc

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Mollusc Sentence Examples

  • A medusa with a remarkable habit of life is Mnestra parasites, which is parasitic on the pelagic mollusc Phyllirrhoe, attaching itself to the host by its subumbral surface; its tentacles, no longer required for obtaining food, have become rudimentary.

  • Thus in the primitive mollusc the mantle-cavity contains a symmetrical group of structures at the posterior end of the body, and this group of structures is called the pallial complex.

  • It is held by some morphologists that the mollusc body is unsegmented, and therefore is to be compared to a single segment of a Chaetopod or Arthropod.

  • He regarded it as a mollusc, being no doubt deceived by the slug-like appearance given by the antennae.

  • In most cases this is a mollusc, and the larvae bore their way into the most diverse organs, often accumulating to such an extent as to give a distinctly orange colour to an otherwise colourless tissue, and to cause the demolition of particular structures e.g.

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