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Melanian :: Melanian (n.) One of a family of fresh-water pectinibranchiate mollusks, having a turret-shaped shell..

Protozoic :: Protozoic (a.) Containing remains of the earliest discovered life of the globe, which included mollusks, radiates and protozoans..

Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.

Nudibranchiata :: Nudibranchiata (n. pl.) A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia..

Rhachidian :: Rhachidian (a.) Of or pertaining to the rhachis; as, the rhachidian teeth of a mollusk..

Toxoglossa :: Toxoglossa (n.pl.) A division of marine gastropod mollusks in which the radula are converted into poison fangs. The cone shells (Conus), Pleurotoma, and Terebra, are examples. See Illust. of Cone, n., 4, Pleurotoma, and Terebra..

Cephalous :: Cephalous (a.) Having a head; -- applied chiefly to the Cephalata, a division of mollusks..

Tongue :: Tongue (n.) The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk..

Pholas :: Pholas (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pholas, or family Pholadidae. They bore holes for themselves in clay, peat, and soft rocks..

Xylophagous :: Xylophagous (a.) Eating, boring in, or destroying, wood; -- said especially of certain insect larvae, crustaceans, and mollusks..

Ootheca :: Ootheca (n.) An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Ooecium..

Whilk :: Whilk (n.) A kind of mollusk, a whelk..

Spat :: Spat (n.) A young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively..

Siphonata :: Siphonata (n. pl.) A tribe of bivalve mollusks in which the posterior mantle border is prolonged into two tubes or siphons. Called also Siphoniata. See Siphon, 2 (a), and Quahaug..

Cockle :: Cockle (n.) A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera..

Radula :: Radula (n.) The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore..

Mollusk :: Mollusk (n.) One of the Mollusca.

Bivalve :: Bivalve (n.) A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca..

Rhipidoglossa :: Rhipidoglossa (n. pl.) A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix..

Doris :: Doris (n.) A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiae on the back.

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