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mollusk

[mol-uhsk] / ˈmɒl əsk /
NOUN
invertebrate
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Among them is Veleropilina gretchenae, a newly identified mollusk recovered from the Aleutian Trench at 6,465 meters.

From Science Daily Nov. 2, 2025

The mollusk lights up using bioluminescence when threatened to distract predators, researchers said.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 14, 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

Marie-Laure sits on a bench beside the mollusk display and trains her ears on passing groups.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

“People We Meet on Vacation” “Six years after ‘My Octopus Teacher,’ we find there’s still much to learn from eight-limbed marine mollusks in ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures.’

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2026

A radioactive wasp’s nest was found at a decommissioned nuclear worksite in South Carolina, and a thriving community of tube worms and mollusks was located at the bottom of deep-sea trenches in the Pacific.

From Slate Aug. 1, 2025

The so-called “hot girl food” is exactly what its name suggests: processed seafood — namely sardines, anchovies, salmon, mollusks and shellfish — that’s neatly packaged and presented in a peel-back, often decorative tin.

From Salon Oct. 11, 2024

Finally, other animal species, including other mollusks, the common earthworm and even the tadpole stages of frogs, also possess a typhlosole that has not been thoroughly studied before.

From Science Daily Jun. 5, 2024

For adult mollusks there is apparently less danger of direct poisoning, at least by some of the pesticides.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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