| 单词 | mollusc |
| 释义 | mollusc (once / 11498 pages) n WORD FAMILY mollusc: molluscs USAGE EXAMPLESDocuments released during the administration of President Bill Clinton showed that the CIA at one point began researching Caribbean molluscs. BBC(Nov 27, 2016) The idea was that the molluscs would be painted in vivid colours to attract the attention of an underwater Castro. The Guardian(Nov 26, 2016) At the same time, freshwater mollusc shells begin to appear in sediments. Nature(Sep 20, 2016) n invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell Syn|Hypo|Hyper mollusk, shellfish scaphopod burrowing marine mollusk gastropod, univalvea class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes chiton, coat-of-mail shell, polyplacophore, sea cradleprimitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates bivalve, lamellibranch, pelecypodmarine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together cephalopod, cephalopod molluskmarine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles tooth shell, tusk shellany of various seashore mollusks having a tapering tubular shell open at each end and a foot pointed like a spade for burrowing abalone, ear-shellany of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior conchany of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip snailfreshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell slugany of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell seasnailany of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moon shells; neritids Ancylus fluviatilis, freshwater limpet, river limpetminute conical gastropod superficially resembling a limpet but living and feeding on freshwater plants nudibranch, sea slugany of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body Aplysia punctata, sea harenaked marine gastropod having a soft body with reduced internal shell and two pairs of ear-like tentacles bubble shellmarine gastropod mollusk having a very small thin shell physaany member of the genus Physa cowrie, cowryany of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells aplacophoran, solenogasterdeep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle clamburrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness cocklecommon edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs oystermarine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters ark shellmarine bivalve mollusk having a heavy toothed shell with a deep boat-like inner surface blood clamred-blooded clam musselmarine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc. escallop, scallop, scollopedible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions piddockmarine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells chambered nautilus, nautilus, pearly nautiluscephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions dibranch, dibranchiate, dibranchiate molluskcephalopods having two gills octopoda cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell decapodcephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones invertebrate any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification |
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