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MOLLUSCA

Dictionary entry overview: What does Mollusca mean?

• MOLLUSCA (noun)
The noun MOLLUSCA has 1 sense:

1. gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons

Familiarity information: MOLLUSCA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MOLLUSCA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Mollusca; phylum Mollusca

Hypernyms ("Mollusca" is a kind of...):

phylum ((biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes)

Meronyms (members of "Mollusca"):

mollusc; mollusk; shellfish (invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell)

class Scaphopoda; Scaphopoda (small class of bilaterally symmetrical marine forms comprising the tooth shells)

class Gasteropoda; class Gastropoda; Gasteropoda; Gastropoda (snails and slugs and their relatives)

class Polyplacophora; Polyplacophora (small class of marine mollusks comprising the chitons; sometimes considered an order of the subclass Amphineura)

Bivalvia; class Bivalvia; class Lamellibranchia; class Pelecypoda; Lamellibranchia (oysters; clams; scallops; mussels)

Cephalopoda; class Cephalopoda (octopuses; squids; cuttlefish; pearly nautilus)

Holonyms ("Mollusca" is a member of...):

animal kingdom; Animalia; kingdom Animalia (taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals)

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