mollusk

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

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

Home plate was tilted up and stamped on top with a cracked mollusk fossil.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

These included a variety of worms, mollusks, and crustaceans.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025

A radioactive wasp’s nest was found at a decommissioned nuclear worksite in South Carolina, and a thriving community of tube worms and mollusks was located at the bottom of deep-sea trenches in the Pacific.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2025

Speaking of what makes up this most delicious and fragrant stew and despite the name, go on and include shellfish: crustaceans, mollusks or bivalves, anything you like.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2025

These tiny dark-yellowish mollusks, native to rivers in China and Southeast Asia, have already wreaked havoc in South America, and for years have kept officials and ecologists across the United States on high alert.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2024

He not realize he no can hear mollusks, like octopus, or other kine sea creatures.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila