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
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
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
Some afternoons he leaves Marie-Laure in the laboratory of Dr. Geffard, an aging mollusk expert whose beard smells permanently of damp wool.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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