A name applied to the shells of the Haliotis--a univalve mollusc found clinging like limpets to rocks; very abundant in Guernsey.
A species of bivalved mollusc on our northern shores, the Tellina rhomboides.
It is this organ which sustains the struggle against the exuberant growth of the polyp, since it is by means of it that the mollusc obtains nourishment.
It is this latter creature which the ciliated embryo must confide to the care of others; this she puts out to nurse with some mollusc or other, until it is fit to provide for itself in its turn.
The mollusc harbours hirudinidae much lower in the scale than those which are found in fishes, and especially in mammals.
Professor Semper found attached to the skin of a Synapta similis, a mollusc which possesses a peculiarity rare among these animals, that of carrying its shell in the interior and not on the outside.
It is not the same with a mollusc called Magilus, which naturalists considered for a long time to be the calcareous tube of an annelid.
But the end of their life approaches, they strip themselves of their ciliated mantle, and being again closely swathed up before they die, they seek the hospitality of a mollusc and give birth to their numerous progeny.
The poor mollusc thickens and indurates his skin as well as he can, softens the asperities of his road, and renders it slippery.
But the centralised mollusc is far more vulnerable.
But for the travellingmollusc the thing is more complicated.
The mollusc has the advantage of finding his defence within himself.
On the other hand a mind far above its possessor's station would prove useless if not a handicap; a mollusc could not use the mind of a man.
Each individual from mollusc to man needs the amount and type of mind that serves to fit its possessor into its particular world of activity.
Not a single species of land or freshwatermollusc can be quoted as having migrated to Europe from Siberia in recent geological times.
Still another genus, which resembles Acme in its geographical distribution, is Daudebardia--a small slug-like mollusc with a tiny shell.
The shell-bearing mollusca are proverbial for their beauty, but it is essential to bear in mind that the shell does not bear the same relation to the mollusc that the "shell" of a lobster does to that animal.
A sufficiently exact idea of this Mollusc may be arrived at from the existing cuttle-fish.
Of this Mollusc we only possess the fossilised internal “bone,” analogous to that of the modern cuttle-fish and the calamary of the present seas.
The Mollusc which occupies the extremity of the elongated and conical tube in the shape of a sabre is an Aploceras.
She has become a mere human mollusc which, when it loses its native shell, drifts helplessly at the mercy of chance currents into the maw of any stronger creature that may fancy it for his prey.
Of course it is unlikely that the eye of the vertebrate and that of the mollusc have been built up by a series of variations due to simple chance.
Let us place side by side the eye of a vertebrate and that of a molluscsuch as the common Pecten.
It is doubtful whether animals built on a different plan--a mollusc or an insect, for instance--cut matter up along the same articulations.
In most species the young mollusc on hatching from the egg does not resemble its parent, but is a free-swimming larva called a veliger.
Each year the secretions of the mollusc would add new concentric circles.
As the molluschas to become the prey of some one, the question simply resolves itself into whose?
What follows may be deemed barbarous; but the men who gulp down at a sitting half-a-hundred live oysters to gratify their taste, may surely forgive me the destruction of a single mollusc to gratify my curiosity!
Exquisite and expensive paint called purpurissima, extracted from the scum on the purple mollusc while in a state of ebullition, was specially prepared for him.
The wings are the branchiæ of the Mollusc that have been set free; they are placed therefore upon the back and are four in number.
Columbella, a small marine mollusc used for necklaces.
The long, narrow tongue of the vegetarian mollusc works like a scythe, and mows down the delicate marine grasses on which the animal feeds.
Limpets have the reputation of being indigestible, if not poisonous, but this is due to the head not being removed before the mollusc is eaten.
The water is drawn down one syphon and up the other; and as it passes through its stomach the mollusc absorbs the animal and vegetable particles in the water.
This circlet of gill-lamellae led Cuvier to class the limpets as Cyclobranchiata, and, by erroneous identification of them with the series of metamerically repeated ctenidia of Chiton, to associate the latter mollusc with the former.
A), and agrees with the method of coiling of a mollusc without lateral torsion, such as Nautilus.
That pagurids must have the usually soft pleon or abdomen protected by the shell of a mollusc is now known to be subject to a multitude of exceptions.
The advantage that this group has derived from the adoption of mollusc shells as houses or fortresses, ready built and light enough for easy transport, is obviously discounted by a twofold inconvenience.
The mollusc gleams like a gem amid The scurf and the clustered green sea-grapes, Whose trellis is but the rock's bare side, Whose husbandman but the tide that drapes.
In the case of the pomatia on the right hand there is shown the thick epiphragm which the mantle secretes before the mollusc hibernates.
This word means a lid, or closing arrangement, and this mollusc makes a hard front door for itself when it hibernates, i.
A parasite of this mollusc causes "fluke" in sheep which have taken it in by drinking or by eating grass by the side of ponds and ditches.
Two facts concerning the life or appearance of a mollusc we should learn from its two names, but this is not the case with Agriolimax agrestis, which is by interpretation "the field slug inhabiting fields.
The world is my oyster, for that matter, but the edible mollusc is hidden, and the shell is uninviting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mollusc" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
