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/meuh lus"keuh/, n.the phylum comprising the mollusks.[1790-1800; < NL, neut. pl. of L molluscus soft; akin to mollis soft]
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Mollusca — Mol*lus ca, prop. n. pl. [NL. See {Mollusk}.] (Zo[ o]l.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, a phylum including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda, and Pelecyopoda (syn. Bivalvia, formerly called… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Mollusca — 1797, from Mod.L. mollusca, chosen by Linnaeus as the name of an invertebrate order (1758), from neuter plural of L. molluscus thin shelled, from mollis soft (see MELT (Cf. melt) (v.)). Linnæus applied the word to a heterogeneous group of… … Etymology dictionary
Mollusca — Mollusca, s. Weichthiere … Pierer's Universal-Lexikon
Mollusca — Mollusca, Weichtiere, über 130000, in fast allen Lebensräumen vorkommende, zumeist jedoch wasserbewohnende Arten umfassender Stamm der ⇒ Protostomia. Die Coelomsegmentierung und das Coelom selbst, das nur im hinteren Körperabschnitt als Pericard … Deutsch wörterbuch der biologie
Mollusca — Temporal range: Cambrian–Recent … Wikipedia
Mollusca — Moluscos Rango temporal: Cámbrico Inferior Reciente … Wikipedia Español
Mollusca — Weichtiere Nautilus Systematik Unterreich: Vielzellige Tiere (Metazoa) Abteilung … Deutsch Wikipedia
Mollusca — Mollusque Coquille Sa … Wikipédia en Français
Mollusca — noun gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons • Syn: ↑phylum Mollusca • Hypernyms: ↑phylum • Member Holonyms: ↑Animalia, ↑kingdom Animalia, ↑animal kingdom … Useful english dictionary
Mollusca (classification phylogenetique) — Mollusca (classification phylogénétique) Cette page a pour objet de présenter un arbre phylogénétique des Mollusca (ou Mollusques), c est à dire un cladogramme mettant en lumière les relations évolutives complexes (relations groupes ancestraux… … Wikipédia en Français
mollusca contagiosa — pl of MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM … Medical dictionary
