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mollusk

/mol-uhsk/US // ˈmɒl əsk //

软体动物

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.

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  • All the different types of fish I got to know extremely well, otters, even some of the mollusks.

  • Most importantly, mollusks are nature’s water filters, able to clean up big messes.

  • It's at a time like this that Germans yearn most for Paul the Octopus, the great mollusk soothsayer for Germany.

  • You could be a generalist—a poet/mollusk scientist/seafarer/surgeon.

  • At low tide we saw a large mollusk-shell traveling toward the shore, and wondered why such unaccustomed speed in its movements.

  • The mollusk of Canada Pliocene clay has undergone no change since its first appearance upon our globe.

  • The Chiton ruber, a jointed mollusk, was also found here, and five species of sea-anemones were counted.

  • He desired the shell of the mollusk that burrowed in the cleft of the cliff.

  • He had lain there in the sand for some time, as motionless as a mollusk at low water.