mollusk

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (4)  · 
“
Ammonites were a kind of mollusk, a squidlike creature that lived in a chambered shell.

View all »
Definitions (3)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. noun Any of numerous chiefly marine invertebrates of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a soft unsegmented body, a mantle, and a protective calcareous shell and including the edible shellfish and the snails.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • In Lake Champlain a long-simmering controversy over the spread of a thumbnail-sized mollusk, the zebra mussel, from U.S. waters into Canadian territory was flaring up again. —  Destroyer 106: White Water
  • On the sandy floor of a cave, she made out a glistening line of asymmetrical shells apparently from some kind of mollusk. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 04 - April 1999
  • Maybe another city, mollusk-curved and sprouting antennae, a strange tail of fabricator nodes wavering below and beneath it. —  Asimov'sSF,Dec2003
  • In context, a mollusk or a hairstyle can induce shudders as easily as a trickle of blood or a rotting corpse. —  StrangeHorizons,July2002
  • - Haliotis Iris come from a Very Rare Mollusk belonging to the ` Haliotis Iris ` Family, This very valuable marine mollusk is highly prized for the very beautiful, —  xml's Blinklist.com
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Words tagged mollusk

tentaculite · radiolitid · radiolite · productid · pleurotomariid · pholadite · monopleurid · architeuthis · goniatitida · gastropod · ammonite

More »

Stats

This word has been looked up 116 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. French mollusque, from New Latin Mollusca, phylum name, from neuter pl. of Latin molluscus, thin-shelled, from mollis, soft; see mel-1 in Indo-European roots.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈmɑlusk/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a year.

Recently looked up

arsonist · euphonious · impressive · inclined · hurtle

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich