mollusca

mollusca englanniksi

1. Mollusca

1. Molluscs.

2. (quote-book)|year=1851|page=6|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/manualofmollusca5156wood/page/n37/mode/1up|passage=(smallcaps) ''mollusca'' are animals with soft bodies, enveloped in a muscular skin, and usually protected by a univalve or bivalve shell. (..) The univalve mollusca are ''encephalous'', or furnished with a distinct head; they have eyes and tentacula, and the mouth is armed with jaws.

3. (RQ:Darwin Origin of Species)

4. (quote-book) (w),(nb...)|year=1862|page=532|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/64320830R.nlm.nih.gov/page/n539/mode/1up|passage=The amphibious animals are provided with special organs for the sense of smell, although a very delicate sense of smell is likewise met with among the crustacea, such as crabs, mollusca and insects.

5. (quote-journal) The Education Society’s Press(nb...)|month=July|year=1886|page=114|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/journalofbombayn01bomb/page/114/mode/1up|passage=Probably frogs, crabs, mollusca, and insects form their chief diet; (..)

6. (quote-book)

7. (quote-book)|year=1940|page=169|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/handbookofrocksf00kemp/page/169/mode/1up|passage=The gentle slopes are favorable to the growth of various mollusca whose hard parts contribute additional material to the growing limestones.

8. (quote-book)|publisher=(w); New York, N.Y.: Inc.|The Macmillan Company|year=1964|pages=16 and 31|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=54DwAAAAMAAJ&q=mollusca|lccn=64-18196|passage=On salt marshes, burrowing crabs, mollusca and annelids undoubtedly assist in aeration of the soil. (..) One can, for example, make a study of the algae that occur on the shells of some of the larger mollusca or on barnacles.

9. a kind of soft nut with a thin shell

10. (inflection of)