mollusk
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To avoid being eaten, the mollusk hides with its transparent body and makes a quick escape by quickly closing its oral hood, similar to the movements of a jellyfish.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2024
The high presence of hearths and mollusk and fish remains in the middens suggests that the area was used for the processing and consumption of marine resources.
From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2024
The oyster farmer, Will Peckham, 31, for example, left a job in corporate finance in the city to start West Robins Oyster Co., a mollusk farm in Peconic Bay about seven years ago.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2023
It wasn’t a worm, a mollusk, or a crustacean.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 21, 2023
Ta-p’en-k’eng sites of Taiwan and the South China coast are full of fish bones and mollusk shells, as well as of stone net sinkers and adzes suitable for hollowing out a wooden canoe.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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