mollusk

Example Sentences

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This humble mollusk is a vital source of income and nutrition for many coastal residents.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024

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 boy’s family in rural Edmond, Oklahoma, humored him with toy versions of an eight-legged mollusk, but as Cal got older it became clear that only the real thing would do.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024

It wasn’t a worm, a mollusk, or a crustacean.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 21, 2023

Home plate was tilted up and stamped on top with a cracked mollusk fossil.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt