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Mollusk in sentence

19 examples of Mollusk in a sentence

(High pitch buzz) (Flapping noises) Cannibals, like this sea butterfly mollusk, that eats its next of kin.
Researchers at Kansas University who were studying mollusks found that a high metabolism predicted which species of mollusk had gone extinct.
The devilfish is merely a mollusk, and even this name hints at its semiliquid flesh, because it's Latin meaning soft one.
An excitable conchologist would surely have fainted dead away before other, more numerous glass cases in which were classified specimens from the mollusk branch.
Obviously, in the presence of these zoophyte and mollusk specimens, the fine lad was classifying his head off.
It filled me with real chagrin to crush underfoot the gleaming mollusk samples that littered the seafloor by the thousands: concentric comb shells, hammer shells, coquina (seashells that actually hop around), top-shell snails, red helmet shells, angel-wing conchs, sea hares, and so many other exhibits from this inexhaustible ocean.
But modern science has not endorsed these designations, and this mollusk is now known by the name argonaut.
"From now on we'll pay closer attention to 'em.""But," I went on, "for secreting pearls, the ideal mollusk is the pearl oyster Meleagrina margaritifera, that valuable shellfish.
The finest pearls are called virgin pearls, or paragons; they form in isolation within the mollusk's tissue.
I approached this phenomenal mollusk.
The mollusk's two valves were partly open.
With each passing year the mollusk's secretions added new concentric layers.
Perhaps, following the examples of oyster farmers in China and India, he had even predetermined the creation of this pearl by sticking under the mollusk's folds some piece of glass or metal that was gradually covered with mother-of-pearl.
I dreamed--one doesn't choose his dreams--that my life had been reduced to the vegetating existence of a simple mollusk.
I also noted long, whitish strings of salps, a type of mollusk found in clusters, and some jellyfish of large size that swayed in the eddies of the billows.
There animal life was represented by nothing more than sea lilies, starfish, delightful crinoids with bell-shaped heads like little chalices on straight stems, top-shell snails, blood-red tooth shells, and fissurella snails, a large species of coastal mollusk.
After several fruitless attempts, the crew managed to slip a noose around the mollusk's body.
A bird's beak on a mollusk!
What was irritating this mollusk?