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Meanings of mollusca in English
Portuguese
moluscos Spanish
filo mollusca Synonyms
Examples for "mollusks"
Examples for "mollusks"
1
Also, species of mollusks live on land-forexample the common garden snail.
2
Silas Peckham had meantime fallen upon another locality of these recent mollusks.
3
The period of development of mollusks, articulates, and vertebrates, is really one.
4
Scoters feed on mollusks, crabs, and some fish and very little vegetation.
5
Three of these demanded attention, those leading to mollusks, insects, and vertebrates.
1
A recent study found molluscs were likely to be particularly at risk.
2
Yet, these studies were carried out in a limited number of molluscs.
3
The oyster-bed among the rocks was frequently renewed and furnished excellent molluscs.
4
This finding greatly increases our understanding of LC-PUFA biosynthesis in marine molluscs.
5
These molluscs were of excellent quality, and the colonists consumed some daily.
1
The so far known human intoxications have been associated with mollusc consumption.
2
Each year the secretions of the mollusc would add new concentric circles.
3
She clung to what she had with the tenacity of a mollusc.
4
The sponge embraces the slender mollusc so maternally that rude yawning is forbidden.
5
What a freak of nature, a bird's beak on a mollusc!
Usage of mollusca in English
1
I tried the galvanic electricity on these mollusca, but it produced no contraction.
2
Zoophytes, mollusca, shell-fish, were the highest developments of those ancient dates.
3
They come almost together-plantsbeing probably actually the first, and mollusca, fishes, and saurians.
4
These shells are identical with those of the mollusca of Lake Ngami and the Zouga.
5
Its water contains so much salt, that neither fish nor mollusca can live in it.
6
It lives constantly in low damp thickets picking up ground insects, centipedes, and small mollusca.
7
Think how little some, indeed many, mollusca have changed.
8
The pearl-bearing oyster is of a more delicate nature than most of the other acephalous mollusca.
9
The three next tables are covered with specimens of the shells of British mollusca, or soft-bodied animals.
10
They are covered with large quantities of mollusca, which are also abundant in the sea in their vicinity.
11
For following up this branch of inquiry the study of the distribution of the mollusca offers special advantages.
12
This applies to the sponges and other zoophyta, and to the worms, the mollusca, echinoderma, articulata, and vertebrata.
13
He gave me some rare shells, for I at that time collected marine mollusca, but with no great zeal.
14
A goodly percentage of the earlier and nearly half of the later tertiary mollusca, according to Des Hayes, Lye!
15
My general conclusions as to distribution of land mollusca are at Volume II., pages 522-9.
16
The fossils comprise several corals, varieties of mollusca, and a class of crustaceans peculiar to the very early rocks-thetrilobites.
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Mollusca through the time