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A kind of invertebrate animal with a soft body usually with a shell.

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Usage examples (39)
  • One mollusk that is not welcome in any garden is the common snail.
  • Casillas raised a red and yellow carton cutout of Octopus Paul, the mollusk from the German zoo that predicted
  • Perched above the smoggy city, this giant mollusk is home to Magali and Fernando Mayorga and their two sons Allan and Josh.
  • Ammonites were a kind of mollusk, a squidlike creature that lived in a chambered shell.
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