Sentence examples for mollusk from inspiring English sources
The word "mollusk" is correct and usable in written English
It is an animal or invertebrate that has a soft body and usually a hard shell, such as a snail, clam, or octopus. For example, "The beach is filled with small mollusks that wash up with each new wave."
Commercially, C. virginica is the most important North American mollusk.
The eggs develop in the gill chamber of the mollusk, and the young bitterlings leave their host about a month later.
Similar processes, which occur in the development of other animals, establish the basic organization of an annelid, a mollusk, or an arthropod.
The foot of a bivalve mollusk is a bulbous or tonguelike organ that is used for burrowing in sand or mud.
The advantage to the sponge is that it is carried by the mollusk; the hermit crab gains protection not only by living in the shell of the mollusk but also through the disagreeable smell and taste of the sponge, which discourages attack by fishes and other enemies.
Octopus, plural octopuses or octopi, in general, any eight-armed cephalopod (octopod) mollusk of the order Octopoda.
Many of these fishes exhibit strange and fascinating behaviour such as nest building, oral incubation, egg laying in mollusk shells, walking and flying, air breathing, production of sound and electricity, and communication by chemical secretions.
The term foot is also applied to organs of locomotion in invertebrates e.g., the muscular creeping or burrowing organ of a mollusk and the limb of an arthropod.
The most common hybrid monster generally mixes differing species e.g., the Centaur (horse-man), the Minotaur (bull-man), Echidna (snake-woman), Pegasus (horse-bird), Sphinx (woman-lion-bird), Siren (bird-woman), and Empusa (animal-metal) of Greek mythology and the griffin (lion-eagle), mermaid (woman-fish), vegetable lamb (plant-animal), barnacle goose (mollusk-bird), and mandrake (plant-man).
B. Ciliary (e.g., sponges, bivalve mollusks).
Somewhat similar conditions prevail in many mollusks.
