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1783 J. Barbut Genera Vermium I. Index p. xvii Ascidia. The Bladder-Shaped Mollusque. Holothuria. The Tentaculated Mollusque. Medusa. The Snake-lock Mollusque.

1808 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 96 286 All the mollusques which creep on their bellies.

1832 R. Owen Mem. Pearly Nautilus 33 The Cephalopods of the higher order have a power of locomotion superior to all other Mollusks.

1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. xvii. 231 This animal resides within two small valves not unlike those of a bivalve shell, and moults its integuments annually, which the conchiferous molluscs do not.

1867 R. I. Murchison Siluria (new ed.) i. 8 It was no longer difficult..to record the succession of crustaceans, mollusks, and other invertebrata.

1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling vii. 224 These molluscs took well to the lake.

1881 Scribner's Monthly Sept. 656/1 Beds of jingles or amber-shells..deck heads..limpets, and other rock-loving mollusks.

1898 R. Munro Prehist. Scotl. 81 This mollusc is now extinct in the Clyde.

1901 E. Step Shell Life ii. 33 The naturalist is so used to the term mollusk that he is not likely to seek or adopt another.

1923 Calif. Fish & Game Comm. Fish Bull. vii. 5 Commercially the Pismo clam ranks first in importance in California among clams and third among all the mollusks.

1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. xii. 282 Of the three highest phyla of animals, the Molluscs, Arthropods, and Vertebrates, it is no coincidence that two, and the two most successful, are segmented.

1944 Living off Land: Man. Bushcraft ii. 30 In the case of molluscs like mutton fish, cook until most of the natural moisture has boiled out of the shell.

1972 Newsweek 10 Jan. 29/1 All shellfish are periodically subjected to toxicity tests. Samples are injected in mice; if they live, the mollusks are presumed safe.

1991 S. Gibson & R. Gibson Homoeopathy for Everyone (new ed.) iv. 57 Sea slugs, a type of mollusc, live in the tidal zones around our coasts.