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A soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically with a hard shell of one or more pieces.
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A weak-willed person.
Examples of mollusks in a Sentence
Oysters, clams, and shrimp abound along the coast, and there are more than 500 species of mollusks in the state.
Rare and endangered freshwater mollusks in eastern United States.
With these teeth they are able to enjoy a mixed menu of shelled animals including barnacles, other crustaceans, and mollusks.
Conseil observed and classified his zoophytes, articulates, mollusks, and fish.
Such vectors have proven useful in modification of a range of edible marine animals including mollusks [18] .
They are usually beds containing numbers of fossils of marine mollusks, the calcareous shells of which supply calcium.
Division research and education programs address the culture of mollusks, crustaceans, marine ornamentals, food fish, seaweed, and biomedical species.
In abundance of species the mollusks constitute the largest invertebrate phylum apart from the Arthropods with over 50,000 described species.
There are sand burrowing mollusks that are almost sessile in nature.
Treatment also involves avoiding foods that are high in copper, such as liver, nuts, chocolate, and mollusks.
There are a handful of restaurants and it's always a treat to be at the Slanted Door for cocktails and innovative Vietnamese food or stop by Hog Island Oysters and slurp down some fresh Sweetwater mollusks from Tomales Bay.
Included in this menagerie are fish, penguins, mollusks, sharks, and many others.
In these settings, the family can enjoy seeing specimen such as coral reefs, octopuses, exotic fish, sea urchins, starfish, jellyfish, sea turtles, seaweed, kelp, and mollusks.
Seals Web Page Bearded Seals are a non-migratory Arctic species that feed on mollusks including clams.
The Cephalopoda are a class of highly evolved mollusks that include the cuttlefishes, squids and octopuses.
How to deter slugs, snails, mollusks around hosta plants slugs and snails enjoy hosta plants slugs and snails enjoy hosta environments.
The majority of these 50 species are red algae, polychaete worms, crustaceans and mollusks.
Mollusks such as oysters, clams and mussels should have closed lids.
Some of those shells include mollusks, scallops, conical, cockle, and other several others similar in shape and size.
After I had learned a great many interesting things about the life and habits of the children of the sea--how in the midst of dashing waves the little polyps build the beautiful coral isles of the Pacific, and the foraminifera have made the chalk-hills of many a land--my teacher read me "The Chambered Nautilus," and showed me that the shell-building process of the mollusks is symbolical of the development of the mind.