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Tooth :: Tooth (n.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish..

Spoutless :: Spoutfish (n.) A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes..

Pearl :: Pearl (n.) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed

Acephalous :: Acephalous (a.) Without a distinct head; -- a term applied to bivalve mollusks.

Asiphonate :: Asiphonate (n.) An asiphonate mollusk.

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

Suprachoroid :: Suprabranchial (a.) Situated above the branchiae; -- applied especially to the upper division of the gill cavity of bivalve mollusks.

Glaucus :: Glaucus (n.) A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white..

Turnstone :: Turnstone (n.) Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake..

Propodium :: Propodium (n.) The anterior portion of the foot of a mollusk.

Tectibranchiate :: Tectibranchiate (n.) A tectibranchiate mollusk.

Nerite :: Nerite (n.) Any mollusk of the genus Nerita.

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..

Shell :: Shell (n.) The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like..

Limax :: Limax (n.) A genus of airbreathing mollusks, including the common garden slugs. They have a small rudimentary shell. The breathing pore is on the right side of the neck. Several species are troublesome in gardens. See Slug..

Fissurella :: Fissurella (n.) A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet..

Nautiloid :: Nautiloid (n.) A mollusk, or shell, of the genus Nautilus or family Nautilidae..

Tubulibranchiata :: Tubulibranchiata (n. pl.) A group of gastropod mollusks having a tubular shell. Vermetus is an example.

Verge :: Verge (n.) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix..

Strombite :: Stromb (n.) Any marine univalve mollusk of the genus Strombus and allied genera. See Conch, and Strombus..

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