mollusk
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Today she listens to me rant about my slimy mollusk phobia, and I push back against her competitive streak with my own.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026
Porosity is known to affect the structural integrity of mollusk shells, making shells weaker and potentially more susceptible to damage.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 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
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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