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- noun Plural form of
mollusc .
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Examples
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Boekschoten and Best (1988) explained how this appears to have allowed Caribbean corals and certain molluscs to have colonised the eastern Atlantic, and they also speculated that manatees also used this route.
Archive 2006-01-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Dimethyl sulfide is also prominent in the aroma of cooked milk and molluscs, which is one reason why corn works so well in chowders.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Dimethyl sulfide is also prominent in the aroma of cooked milk and molluscs, which is one reason why corn works so well in chowders.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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A difficulty may be suggested as to the movements of molluscs, that is, as to where that movement originates; for they have no distinction of left and right.
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A difficulty may be suggested as to the movements of molluscs, that is, as to where that movement originates; for they have no distinction of left and right.
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After twenty-five years spent in botanical research he was compelled, as there seemed nothing else for him to undertake, to assume charge of the collection of invertebrate animals, and to him was assigned that enormous, chaotic mass of forms then known as molluscs, insects, worms, and microscopic animals.
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The elimination of the barnacles or Cirrhipedes from the molluscs was a decided step in advance, and was a proof of the acute observation and sound judgment of Lamarck.
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* Note: I have had little use for hexavalent chrome compounds but one thing I did notice in experimenting with a few of Browne's recommendations ( "bichromates", "chromic acid" etc), is that the merest few drops of such compounds (typically as a solution of potassium dichromate or chromate) added to water containing soft creatures such as molluscs, generally will kill them gently by paralysis and leave them relaxed.
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A famous case is that of the 'molluscs', where either Aristotle's knowledge was exceptionally minute, or where it has come down to us with unusual completeness.
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These are the cuttle fish, which have now surrendered their Aristotelian name of 'molluscs' to that greater group which is seen to include them, together with the shell-fish or 'ostracoderma' of Aristotle.
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