Definition of "mollusk" [mol•lusk]

• Any of numerous chiefly marine invertebrates of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a soft unsegmented body, a mantle, and a protective calcareous shell and including the edible shellfish and the snails. (noun)

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• "Perched above the smoggy city, this giant mollusk is home to Magali and Fernando Mayorga and their two sons Allan and Josh."
• "Casillas raised a red and yellow carton cutout of Octopus Paul, the mollusk from the German zoo that predicted"
• "The mollusk is the venerable grandfather, the chief of the house, the creator of the dynasty, the ancestor crowned with a nobility of millions of centuries."