mollusk
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The mollusk lights up using bioluminescence when threatened to distract predators, researchers said.
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
It wasn’t a worm, a mollusk, or a crustacean.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 21, 2023
The mollusk specialist Alan Solem estimated in 1990 that, of roughly 200 Hawaiian species of one snail family, the Endodontidae, in Honolulu's Bishop Museum, fewer than 40 had been described.
From Salon • May 31, 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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
