English > Mollusca: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons. |
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| Synonym | phylum Mollusca |
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| Member of | Animalia, kingdom Animalia, animal kingdom | taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals |
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| Members | Bivalvia, class Bivalvia, Lamellibranchia, class Lamellibranchia, class Pelecypoda | oysters |
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| Cephalopoda, class Cephalopoda | octopuses |
| Gastropoda, class Gastropoda, Gasteropoda, class Gasteropoda | snails and slugs and their relatives |
| Polyplacophora, class Polyplacophora | small class of marine mollusks comprising the chitons |
| Scaphopoda, class Scaphopoda | small class of bilaterally symmetrical marine forms comprising the tooth shells |
| mollusk, mollusc, shellfish | invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell |
| Broader | phylum | (biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants |
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| Spanish | filo Mollusca, Mollusca, moluscos |
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| Catalan | Mollusca, Mol·lusc |
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