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PRONUNCIATION OF MOLLUSK

mollusk  [ˈmɒləsk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MOLLUSK

noun
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verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mollusk is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MOLLUSK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

mollusk

Mollusca

The molluscs or mollusks /ˈmɒləsks/ compose the large phylum of invertebrate animals known as the Mollusca. Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. Molluscs are the largest marine phylum, comprising about 23% of all the named marine organisms. Numerous molluscs also live in freshwater and terrestrial habitats. They are highly diverse, not just in size and in anatomical structure, but also in behaviour and in habitat. The phylum is typically divided into 9 or 10 taxonomic classes, of which two are entirely extinct. Cephalopod molluscs, such as squid, cuttlefish and octopus, are among the most neurologically advanced of all invertebrates—and either the giant squid or the colossal squid is the largest known invertebrate species. The gastropods are by far the most numerous molluscs in terms of classified species, and account for 80% of the total. The scientific study of molluscs is called malacology. The three most universal features defining modern molluscs are a mantle with a significant cavity used for breathing and excretion, the presence of a radula, and the structure of the nervous system.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MOLLUSK


damask
ˈdæməsk
mollusc
ˈmɒləsk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MOLLUSK

mollitious
mollusc
mollusc-like
molluscan
molluscicidal
molluscicide
molluscoid
molluscoidal
molluscous
molluscum
mollusk-like
molluskan
Mollweide projection
molly
Molly Maguire
mollycoddle
mollycoddler
mollycoddling
mollyhawk
mollymawk

WORDS THAT END LIKE MOLLUSK

busk
cornhusk
cusk
dusk
husk
lusk
musk
predusk
rusk
tusk
unhusk

Synonyms and antonyms of mollusk in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mollusk» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MOLLUSK

Find out the translation of mollusk to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mollusk from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mollusk» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

软体动物
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

molusco
570 millions of speakers

English

mollusk
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मोलस्क
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الرخوي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

моллюск
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

molusco
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মলাস্কাম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mollusque
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Moluska
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Weichtier
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

軟体動物
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

연체 동물
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Molluscum
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhuyễn thể
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

molluscum
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मॉलस्कॅक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

molluuscum
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mollusco
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mięczak
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

молюск
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

moluște
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μαλάκιο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

schelp
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mollusk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mollusk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mollusk

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MOLLUSK»

The term «mollusk» is regularly used and occupies the 81.626 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MOLLUSK» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mollusk

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOLLUSK»

Discover the use of mollusk in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mollusk and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain
Emperor Mollusk.
A. Lee Martinez, 2012
2
Estuarine and Marine Bivalve Mollusk Culture
This book presents the biology, culture techniques, research and development, and future of the fishery of some of the most important bivalve mollusks cultured throughout the world.
Winston Menzel, 1991
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Mollusk Venoms: Advances in Research and Application: 2011 ...
Mollusk Venoms: Advances in Research and Application: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyPaper™ that delivers timely, authoritative, and intensively focused information about Mollusk Venoms in a compact format.
‎2012
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Mollusk-shell Radiocarbon as a Paleoupwelling Proxy in Peru
Mollusk shells from Peruvian archaeological middens provide brief (
Kevin Bradley Jones, 2009
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Mollusk Venoms—Advances in Research and Application: 2013 ...
The editors have built Mollusk Venoms—Advances in Research and Application: 2013 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about ZZZAdditional Research in this book to be deeper than ...
‎2013
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The Mollusks: A Guide to Their Study, Collection, and ...
14.6 SOFT PARTS Researchers can learn a lot from studying mollusk shells, but they can learn much more from studying the soft parts. This additional information can be essential to systematists studying relationships among species.
Charles F. Sturm, Timothy A. Pearce, Ángel Valdés, 2006
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Flip Dictionary
... tranquilize mollusk: abalone, chiton, clam, cuttlefish, limpet, snail, whelk mollusk cephalopod: argonaut mollusk classes: amphineura, bivalvia, cephalopoda, gastropoda, monopla- cophora, scaphopoda mollusk shell: bivalve , chambered, ...
Barbara Kipfer, 2002
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Aquatic Life of the World: Mangrove-Ocean history
MOLLUSK. This swollen bubble is a type of bubble shell. These mollusks are marine snails that have thin, lightweight shells. They cannot retreat into their shell as land snails do, but the shell still protects the snail's soft body. The shell of this ...
‎2001
9
Encyclopedia of Texas Seashells: Identification, Ecology, ...
For example, the native Karankawas used shells in many ways, and numerous mounds of mollusk shells abound around Copano Bay. Around the kitchen middens and trash mounds of the Karankawas are awls and drills made from the  ...
John Wesley Tunnell, 2010
10
The Pearl Book: The Definitive Buying Guide: How to Select, ...
The longer the pearl remains in the mollusk, however, the more likely that its beauty will be marred, especially its surface, so large natural pearls of fine quality are especially rare. A pearl diver might dive an entire lifetime and amass only a ...
Antoinette L. Matlins, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MOLLUSK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mollusk is used in the context of the following news items.
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Floridians Having 'Direct Contact' With Armadillos Causes Leprosy …
Once again, Florida is leading the nation: The same state that brought you Disney World and the world's first and only mollusk museum is now ... «Jezebel, Jul 15»
2
Law enforcement cracking down harder on lobster mobsters
They were almost fished to extinction," said Vogel, specifying that she meant the mollusk, not native-born islanders. State Rep. Holly Raschein ... «KeysNet, Jul 15»
3
Scientists develop bacon-flavored health food. What took them so …
The researchers originally started growing the plant as a food for abalone, a kind of large, edible mollusk that's often raised in commercial ... «Christian Science Monitor, Jul 15»
4
UNLV researchers dissect species invasion of Lake Mead
Until they showed up in Lake Mead, the bivalve mollusk with the striped shell no bigger than a man'€™s thumbnail had never been found west ... «Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jul 15»
5
Outdoors notebook: Boaters advised to help stem spread of zebra …
Zebra mussels, an invasive mollusk from Eastern Europe, have been found in seven Texas lakes since 2009, when they were first discovered ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»
6
Scientists in Oregon develop bacon-flavored seaweed
Their original goal was to create a super food for commercially grown abalone, a mollusk prized in Asia. The strain of dulse they came up with, ... «Daily Astorian, Jul 15»
7
Common lightning whelk has extraordinary history
In it, they pieced together the marine mollusk's political, social, economic and spiritual import based on a century of research by many experts, ... «The News-Press, Jul 15»
8
'The Soul of an Octopus': Book charts seasons of a cephalopod
It's no wonder Montgomery became convinced that these animals — actually members of the mollusk family — are fully sentient creatures, with ... «mySanAntonio.com, Jul 15»
9
Cute sea bunnies are latest Internet rage, and for good reason
The Jorunna are a type of shell-less mollusk, of the droid class species parva, and are found throughout the Indian Ocean between Japan and ... «Dispatch Times, Jul 15»
10
Finally, Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived
The researchers originally started growing the plant as a food for abalone, a kind of large, edible mollusk that's often raised in commercial ... «Live Science, Jul 15»

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