Meaning of mollusca | Babel Free

Definitions

Molluscs considered as a group.

plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Examples

“The mollusca are animals with soft bodies, enveloped in a muscular skin, and usually protected by a univalve or bivalve shell. […] The univalve mollusca are encephalous, or furnished with a distinct head; they have⟳ eyes and tentacula, and the mouth is armed with jaws.”

“Turning for a very brief space to animals: on the land⟳ there are some hermaphrodites, as land-mollusca and earth-worms; but these all pair.”

“The amphibious animals are provided with special organs for the sense⟳ of smell⟳, although a very delicate sense⟳ of smell⟳ is likewise met with among the crustacea, such as crabs, mollusca and insects.”

“Probably frogs, crabs, mollusca, and insects form⟳ their chief diet; […]”

“The löss fauna is largely of terrestrial mollusca, as in America, […]”

“The gentle slopes are favorable to the growth of various mollusca whose hard parts contribute⟳ additional material to the growing limestones.”

“The mollusca, and testaceous animals in particular, have⟳ been considered to be of potency in an amatory sense⟳.”

“On salt marshes, burrowing crabs, mollusca and annelids undoubtedly assist in aeration of the soil. […] One can, for example, make⟳ a study⟳ of the algae that occur⟳ on the shells of some of the larger mollusca or on barnacles.”

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