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    MOLLUSK

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shellplay

    Synonyms:

    mollusc; mollusk; shellfish

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

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

    invertebrate (any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification)

    Meronyms (parts of "mollusk"):

    carapace; cuticle; shell; shield (hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles)

    shellfish (meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean))

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mollusk"):

    scaphopod (burrowing marine mollusk)

    gastropod; univalve (a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes)

    chiton; coat-of-mail shell; polyplacophore; sea cradle (primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates)

    bivalve; lamellibranch; pelecypod (marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together)

    cephalopod; cephalopod mollusk (marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles)

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

    Mollusca; phylum Mollusca (gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons)

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