mollusk
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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 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
Marie-Laure sits on a bench beside the mollusk display and trains her ears on passing groups.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Until now, no freshwater cave snails had been documented in China, and the country's subterranean freshwater mollusks had received relatively little scientific attention.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
The cave's water temperature stays close to 20°C, providing a relatively stable environment for the tiny mollusks.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
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
Abalones are mollusks that cling tenaciously to rocks, and one has to pry them loose.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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