Mollusca
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Mollusca
1790–1800; < New Latin, neuter plural of Latin molluscus soft; akin to mollis soft
Example Sentences
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This verbal slippage, between Alexa and Mollusca, serves as a trap door to thinking about language, time, history and human consciousness.
From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2018
The phylum Mollusca is a large, mainly marine group of invertebrates.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
The Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas belongs to one of the most species-rich but genomically poorly explored phyla, the Mollusca.
From Nature • Oct. 3, 2012
As the most speciose member of the Lophotrochozoa, phylum Mollusca is central to our understanding of the biology and evolution of this superphylum of protostomes.
From Nature • Oct. 3, 2012
The food of the flamingo seems to consist chiefly of small aquatic invertebrate animals which live in the mud of lagoons, for instance Mollusca, but also of Confervae and other low salt-water algae.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
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