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
Malacozoa, mal-a-ko-zō′a, n.pl. soft-bodied animals, the Mollusca generally.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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