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
Herman is confident that his father would be happy with his adoration for the mollusk, now chronicled in this beautiful cookbook.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 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
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
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
Though she prefers mollusks to men, it’s Yeva who insists on reducing the kidnapping target from 100 to 12, a number that the trailer could humanely accommodate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025
Speaking of what makes up this most delicious and fragrant stew and despite the name, go on and include shellfish: crustaceans, mollusks or bivalves, anything you like.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2025
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
They are linked so intimately and indispensably with the lives of many fishes, mollusks, and crustaceans that were they no longer habitable these seafoods would disappear from our tables.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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