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PHYLUM MOLLUSCA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons
Synonyms:
Mollusca; phylum Mollusca
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("phylum Mollusca" is a kind of...):
phylum ((biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes)
Meronyms (members of "phylum 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 ("phylum Mollusca" is a member of...):
animal kingdom; Animalia; kingdom Animalia (taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals)
