mollusks

[ (mol-uhsks) ]

Save This Word!

A phylum of invertebrates with soft bodies and muscular feet. Some mollusks also have hard shells. Oysters, clams, snails, slugs, octopuses, and squid are mollusks.

QUIZ

QUIZ YOURSELF ON OPPOSITES OF RED BEFORE YOU TURN SCARLET

We have a challenge that will make you blush: do you know the many words and ways to describe the opposite of red?

Question 1 of 7

Which of the following colors is used to symbolize AIR?

white

green

red

TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUT

Words nearby mollusks

molluscoid, molluscous, molluscum, molluscum contagiosum, mollusk, mollusks, Mollweide projection, molly, mollycoddle, mollyhawk, Molly Maguire

How to use mollusks in a sentence

Her instructions for “the perfect scallops” include “Season both sides and let those little marine bivalve mollusks chillax.”
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Chrissy Teigen Weds John Legend|Anna Klassen|September 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I will take her any day over the “educated class,” the bureaucratic mollusks and the defeatist sad sacks in Washington.
In Defense of Tea Parties|Tunku Varadarajan|January 11, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The land mollusks and the great order of insects and other land arthropods only to a minor extent dwell in the open light.
Man And His Ancestor|Charles Morris
Misfortune, Fatality, had willed that a drop of water thicker than the surrounding medium should pass through one of the mollusks.
Urania|Camille Flammarion

Other fishes are bottom feeders, as the blackfish and the sea bass, living almost entirely upon mollusks and crustaceans.
A Civic Biology|George William Hunter
Hermaphrodite mollusks, with a marvellously complicated sexual apparatus, ought also to be studied separately.
The Natural Philosophy of Love|Remy de Gourmont
These shells were once the homes of sea mollusks, as such soft, fleshy creatures are called.
Stories of California|Ella M. Sexton

mollusks

Words nearby mollusks

Words related to mollusks

How to use mollusks in a sentence