English > phylum Mollusca: 1 sense > noun 1, animalMeaning | gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons. |
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Synonym | 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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