Noun: mollusc
| Singular | mollusc |
| Plural | molluscs |
Sample Sentences
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bivalve molluscs
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For example, the antitumour depsipeptide kahalalide F was isolated from the opisthobranch mollusc Elysia rufescens, and is used by both the mollusc and its dietary alga Bryopsis spp. [2016 January 21, “Choose Your Weaponry: Selective Storage of a Single Toxic Compound, Latrunculin A, by Closely Related Nudibranch Molluscs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:]
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Searching for hard-shelled prey – molluscs, crabs and the like – there are two species of bear otter in Kanapoi. [2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 25:]
Nouns inflected like mollusc
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French mollusque, from New Latin Mollusca (phylum name), from Latin molluscus (“thin-shelled”), from mollis (“soft”). See: French Nouns '
mollusque', Latin Nouns '
molluscus'.