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n. - Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell.

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  • The embryo of a Vertebrate might at a certain stage of development, be called a mollusc, if for instance, it had the heart of a mollusc.
  • In the waters of Florida is a distinct curiosity in the form of an altogether different mollusc which is commonly known as the
  • Some 27 species of marine mollusc (64%) are endemic.
  • He moved so fast that the mollusc could not follow him.
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