mollusks

1. 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.

Example Sentences

Her instructions for “the perfect scallops” include “Season both sides and let those little marine bivalve mollusks chillax.”

From The Daily Beast

I will take her any day over the “educated class,” the bureaucratic mollusks and the defeatist sad sacks in Washington.

From The 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.

From Project Gutenberg

Misfortune, Fatality, had willed that a drop of water thicker than the surrounding medium should pass through one of the mollusks.

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Other fishes are bottom feeders, as the blackfish and the sea bass, living almost entirely upon mollusks and crustaceans.

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Hermaphrodite mollusks, with a marvellously complicated sexual apparatus, ought also to be studied separately.

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These shells were once the homes of sea mollusks, as such soft, fleshy creatures are called.

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