Instinct teaches many molluscous animals to do the same.
The beautiful light given out by these molluscous animals soon ceased to be seen emitted from every part of their bodies; but by moving them about it could be reproduced for some length of time after.
We have before us one of the Tunicata, an order of molluscous animals which are closely allied to the Conchifera or bivalves, but somewhat lower in the scale than they.
In the most eastern room of this gallery are a few tables upon which are deposited the shells and tubes of molluscous animals, to illustrate their changes, and the way in which the animal adapts them to his position.
The Molluscous Gasteropoda have the organs of respiration formed for aerial respiration, or for respiration under water.
In 1804, Lamarck classed them among the molluscous cephalopods.
The seas of the Lower Cretaceous period were remarkable in a zoological point of view for the great number of species and the multiplicity of generic forms of molluscous Cephalopods.
The Belemnites, molluscous Cephalopods of a very curious organisation, appeared in great numbers, and for the first time, in the Jurassic seas.
A marine molluscous fauna, however, agreeing in character with that of Moel Tryfaen, and comprising as many species, has been found in drift at Macclesfield and other places in central England, sometimes reaching an elevation of 1200 feet.
Large jars were filling apace with the bodies of rare birds, fishes, quadrupeds and reptiles, as well as molluscous animals.
It has gone to record that the shell-fish of the Silurian system are the lowest division of the molluscous animals.
The exquisitely beautiful, light and delicate fabrics included under the above name are inhabited by a molluscous animal named the Ocythoee, which is provided with tuberculated arms.
The type or general appellative in De Blainville's system, including all molluscous animals, excepting those with multivalve shells.
They are now known to belong to the class of molluscous animals, called Pteropoda, from the wing-shaped organs of locomotion.
A term applied by some authors to those species of Molluscous animals, which inhabit fresh water, either in rivers, or salt water standing pools, as distinguished from the marine or Mollusca.
An extremely light, cartilaginous covering of a molluscous animal, so named from its similarity in shape to a boat.
The plate or plates with which many molluscousanimals enclose the aperture of their shells, when retired within them.
Described in the Voyage de la Coquille, and represented as a molluscous animal destitute of a shell.
This genus of Molluscous Animals, is remarkable for boring holes in wood, which are filled by their elongated tubes, and give it a honey-comb appearance.
The whole number of species of molluscousanimals known is estimated at about twelve thousand recent and fifteen thousand fossil.
The same holds good, with certain limitations, in Molluscousand Radiated animals.
Such shoals may be produced when volcanic islands are leveled by waves and ocean currents, and when submarine plateaus, ridges, and peaks are built up by various organic agencies, such as molluscous and foraminiferal shell deposits (Fig.
Below low-tide level occur beds of molluscous shells, such as the oyster, with countless numbers of other humble organisms.
In the last of these formations are found fossil remains of corals and molluscous animals.
The molluscous fauna of the "faluns" is on the whole much more littoral than that of the red and coralline crag of Suffolk, and implies a shallower sea.
The principal food of the sperm whale is "squid," a molluscous animal.
Annulosa, and the type of whose structure is as distinct from that of the molluscous type on the one hand, as it is from that of the type with a spinal column (i.
Finally, and this is perhaps one of the most curious circumstances, the process of formation appears to have been, at least in some respects, the same in the eyes of these molluscous animals as in the eyes of vertebrates.
History of the Molluscous Animals of the Counties of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff, with Account of the Cirripedal Animals of Same District.
The Molluscous Animals and their Shells, of Chester County, Pa.
The Acephala are that division ofmolluscous animals which, like the oyster and scallop, are without heads.
Molluscous animals which form holes in the solid rocks in which they lodge themselves.
A class of molluscous animals, having their organs of motion arranged round their head.
An extinct genus of the order of molluscous animals, called Cephalopoda, of a thin lenticular shape, internally divided into small chambers.
An extinct genus of the order of molluscous animals called Cephalopoda, having a long, straight, and chambered conical shell.
An extinct and very numerous genus of the order of molluscous animals called Cephalopoda, allied to the modern genus Nautilus, which inhabited a chambered shell, curved like a coiled snake.
An extinct genus of the order of molluscous animals, called Cephalopoda, that inhabited a long-chambered conical shell, like a straight horn.
Introduction to Conchology=; or, Elements of the Natural History of Molluscous Animals.
Such shoals may be produced when volcanic islands are leveled by waves and ocean currents, and when submarine plateaus, ridges, and peaks are built up by various organic agencies, such as molluscous and foraminiferal shell deposits.
But of all the molluscous fish, the cuttle-fish is the earliest in the spring to bring forth its young; and they do not bring forth at every season.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "molluscous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
