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    MOLLUSCA

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitonsplay

    Synonyms:

    Mollusca; phylum Mollusca

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("Mollusca" is a kind of...):

    phylum ((biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes)

    Meronyms (members of "Mollusca"):

    mollusc; mollusk; shellfish (invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell)

    class Scaphopoda; Scaphopoda (small class of bilaterally symmetrical marine forms comprising the tooth shells)

    class Gasteropoda; class Gastropoda; Gasteropoda; Gastropoda (snails and slugs and their relatives)

    class Polyplacophora; Polyplacophora (small class of marine mollusks comprising the chitons; sometimes considered an order of the subclass Amphineura)

    Bivalvia; class Bivalvia; class Lamellibranchia; class Pelecypoda; Lamellibranchia (oysters; clams; scallops; mussels)

    Cephalopoda; class Cephalopoda (octopuses; squids; cuttlefish; pearly nautilus)

    Holonyms ("Mollusca" is a member of...):

    animal kingdom; Animalia; kingdom Animalia (taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals)

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