mollusc, mollusk Nat. Hist.
(ˈmɒləsk)
Also 9 mollusque.
[ad. F. mollusque, ad. mod.L. Mollusca.]
An animal belonging to the Mollusca.
| 1783 J. Barbut Genera Vermium p. xvii, Ascidia. The Bladder Shaped Mollusque. Holothuria. The Tentaculated Mollusque. Medusa. The Snake-lock Mollusque. 1808 Home in Phil. Trans. XCVI. 286 All the mollusques which creep on their bellies. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 321/2 Terrestrial and fluviatile Mollusks. 1867 F. Francis Angling vii. (1880) 259 These molluscs took well to the lake. 1898 R. Munro Preh. Scot. 81 This mollusc is now extinct in the Clyde. |