mollusca
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.34 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "The mollusca are animals with soft bodies, enveloped in a muscular skin, and usually protected by a univalve or bivalve shell. […] The univalve mollusca are encephalous, or furnished with a distinct head; they have eyes and tentacula, and the mouth is armed with jaws."
- "Turning for a very brief space to animals: on the land there are some hermaphrodites, as land-mollusca and earth-worms; but these all pair."
- "The amphibious animals are provided with special organs for the sense of smell, although a very delicate sense of smell is likewise met with among the crustacea, such as crabs, mollusca and insects."
- "Probably frogs, crabs, mollusca, and insects form their chief diet; […]"
- "The löss fauna is largely of terrestrial mollusca, as in America, […]"
- "The gentle slopes are favorable to the growth of various mollusca whose hard parts contribute additional material to the growing limestones."