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
The mollusk lights up using bioluminescence when threatened to distract predators, researchers said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024
Herman is confident that his father would be happy with his adoration for the mollusk, now chronicled in this beautiful cookbook.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2024
The oyster farmer, Will Peckham, 31, for example, left a job in corporate finance in the city to start West Robins Oyster Co., a mollusk farm in Peconic Bay about seven years ago.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 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
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
Though she prefers mollusks to men, it’s Yeva who insists on reducing the kidnapping target from 100 to 12, a number that the trailer could humanely accommodate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025
The so-called “hot girl food” is exactly what its name suggests: processed seafood — namely sardines, anchovies, salmon, mollusks and shellfish — that’s neatly packaged and presented in a peel-back, often decorative tin.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2024
Oval-sided glass elevators slide up and down the walls like giant mollusks.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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