- plural of mollusk.
mollusks
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“People We Meet on Vacation” “Six years after ‘My Octopus Teacher,’ we find there’s still much to learn from eight-limbed marine mollusks in ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures.’
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
Trilobites scurried across the seafloor among dense clusters of shelled mollusks.
From Science Daily • Jan. 11, 2026
A radioactive wasp’s nest was found at a decommissioned nuclear worksite in South Carolina, and a thriving community of tube worms and mollusks was located at the bottom of deep-sea trenches in the Pacific.
From Slate • Aug. 1, 2025
The so-called “hot girl food” is exactly what its name suggests: processed seafood — namely sardines, anchovies, salmon, mollusks and shellfish — that’s neatly packaged and presented in a peel-back, often decorative tin.
From Salon • Oct. 11, 2024
He held out two of the black, bearded mollusks.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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