Definition of Mollusk family

1. Noun. A family of mollusks.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Mollusk Family

molluscoid
molluscoidal
molluscoidea
molluscoids
molluscous
molluscs
molluscum
molluscum bodies
molluscum body
molluscum conjunctivitis
molluscum contagiosum
molluscum contagiosum virus
molluscum corpuscle
molluscum verrucosum
mollusk
mollusk family (current term)
mollusk genus
mollusk venoms
molluskan
molluskans
molluskicidal
molluskicide
molluskicides
mollusklike
mollusks
molly-guard
molly-mawk
molly-mawks
mollycoddle

Literary usage of Mollusk family

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. ... A Report Upon the Mollusk Fisheries of Massachusetts by David Lawrence Belding (1909)
"Animals of the mollusk family that have the gills arranged in leaf-like layers. The animal during its development until it reaches adult size. ..."

2. Exposition Memories: Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, 1916 by George Wharton James, Bertha Bliss Tyler (1917)
"And turning to the others so crestfallen: "I'm astonished at you old scions of the Southern mollusk family, that you let her out-brag you. ..."

3. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach (1912)
"Olive-shell, the polished and often beautifully colored shell, of nearly the size and shape of an olive, of a marine gastropod mollusk (family ..."

4. Reminiscences Among the Rocks in Connection with the Geological Survey of Canada by Thomas Chesmer Weston (1899)
"... on the leaves of which we find small shells, representatives of the Mollusk family. Other beds are made up almost entirely of small bivalve shells, ..."

5. The Theory and Practice of Cattle-breeding by William Warfield (1889)
"Thus a mollusk family which was once very abundant, but which is now very rare, has left a wonderful record of its extraordinary efforts to main- ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1904)
"Olive-shell, the polished and often beautifully colored shell, of nearly the size and shape of an olive, of a marine gastropod mollusk (family ..."

7. Authentic Reading Practice Grades 4-6 by Jo Ellen Moore (2001)
"It's a member of the mollusk family, but it doesn't have shell armor to protect its body. Clams are mollusks that have two shells. ..."

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