mollusk
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This humble mollusk is a vital source of income and nutrition for many coastal residents.
From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024
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
The boy’s family in rural Edmond, Oklahoma, humored him with toy versions of an eight-legged mollusk, but as Cal got older it became clear that only the real thing would do.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024
It wasn’t a worm, a mollusk, or a crustacean.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 21, 2023
It is important because many aquatic snails serve as hosts of dangerous parasitic worms that spend part of their life cycle in a mollusk, part in a human being.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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