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mollusca

mollusca noun: molluscs considered as a group.

Noun

mollusca pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Molluscs considered as a group.
    • The mollusca are animals with soft bodies, enveloped in a muscular skin, and usually protected by a univalve or bivalve shell. […] The univalve mollusca are encephalous, or furnished with a distinct head; they have eyes and tentacula, and the mouth is armed with jaws.1851, S[amuel] P[ickworth] Woodward, “Classes of the Mollusca”, in A Manual of the Mollusca; or, A Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and Fossil Shells, London: John Weale, […], page 6
    • Turning for a very brief space to animals: on the land there are some hermaphrodites, as land-mollusca and earth-worms; but these all pair.1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Natural Selection”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 100

mollusca meaning in Tamil

mollusca in Tamil

மெல்லுடலிகள், மெல்லுடலி

Examples of mollusca in a sentence

  • The amphibious animals are provided with special organs for the sense of smell, although a very delicate sense of smell is likewise met with among the crustacea, such as crabs, mollusca and insects.1862, Arthur Lutze, translated by Charles J[ulius] Hempel, “[Appendix.] The Human Body”, in Manual of Homœopathic Theory and Practice....
  • Probably frogs, crabs, mollusca, and insects form their chief diet; […]1886 July, Keswal [pseudonym; W. F. Sinclair], “Notes on the Waters of Western India. Part I.—‘British Deccan and Khandesh.’”, in R[obert]...
  • The löss fauna is largely of terrestrial mollusca, as in America, […]1910, Frank Leverett, Comparison of North American and European Glacial Deposits, Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, page 302:
  • The gentle slopes are favorable to the growth of various mollusca whose hard parts contribute additional material to the growing limestones.1940, Frank F[itch] Grout, “[The Sedimentary Rocks] Limestones”, in A Handbook of Rocks for Use Without the Petrographic Microscope, 6th...

Questions about mollusca

What does mollusca mean?
Mollusca means molluscs considered as a group.
What is mollusca in Tamil?
Mollusca in Tamil is மெல்லுடலிகள், மெல்லுடலி. See Mollusca meaning in Tamil.
How do you use mollusca in a sentence?
The amphibious animals are provided with special organs for the sense of smell, although a very delicate sense of smell is likewise met with among the crustacea, such as crabs, mollusca and insects.
What part of speech is mollusca?
Mollusca is a noun.

Words near mollusca in the dictionary

  1. molls
  2. mollu-series
  3. mollugin
  4. molluginaceous
  5. mollusc
  6. mollusca
  7. molluscacidal
  8. molluscacide
  9. molluscacides
  10. molluscan
  11. molluscans

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