mollusk

Example Sentences

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Today she listens to me rant about my slimy mollusk phobia, and I push back against her competitive streak with my own.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026

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

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

There were little pieces of ancient sea urchins in my hand, mollusk shells.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan