The word 'mollusc' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a type of invertebrate animal with a soft body, typically enclosed in a shell, such as a snail or octopus. It is often used in scientific or academic writing, as well as more casual and descriptive language. Example: "The beach was filled with molluscs scattered along the shoreline, their shells shimmering in the sunlight."
EARLY Hindu mythology held that pearls were made from dewdrops that the pearl mollusc absorbed when it rose to the surface of the sea at night to breathe.
From the early 1920s to the late 1930s, for example, a San Francisco restaurant would charge only $6-7 6-7 today's money, for a serving of abalone, a todayof mollusc.
Oysters have relatively few natural predators: mainly starfish, which attach themselves to the shell with multitudinous teeth and patiently chew through, and the oyster drill, a species of carnivorous snail that attaches itself to a mollusc shell with a multi-toothed organ and inserts its proboscis, which releases enzymes that digest the creature in its home, making it easy to hoover up.
Scarcity has made oysters expensive, turning this unattractive mollusc into a delicacy for the rich.
IN THE clear blue coastal waters of California lives a much cherished mollusc.
It does not, however, secrete this shell directly in the way that, for example, a mollusc does.
He and a colleague once estimated the temperature of the sea floor a century ago by studying the "isotopic composition" of mollusc shells.
Quantum quantified Find dining Aerial jellyfish Just the ticket It's the alcohol talking Stalking trolls When silicon leaves the valley Printing a bit of me An uncommon thread Catapulting ahead The DNA of materials ReprintsFrom the oceanIt began in the 1990s with an abalone shell, the sturdy home of a mollusc with a beautifully decorated mother-of-pearl interior.
Old, pessimistic way of thinking: I've missed my daughter's entire university career, from freshers' week to graduation, just sitting here waiting for someone to explain why my broadband speed is so slow that it takes longer for me to load a web page than it would take a mollusc to translate the New Testament into Portuguese.
How do you explain to a mollusc of an office co-worker the sheer love that courses through your veins as you look upon the chap to your right on the parade ground – impeccable, starched, in his greens as the sleet pelts his ears pink and the fearsome wind tugs at his buckles?
Paul, of course, is the mystic mollusc: an octopus who predicts by selecting a mussel from his favoured jar.
