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PHYLUM MOLLUSCA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phylum Mollusca mean? 

PHYLUM MOLLUSCA (noun)
  The noun PHYLUM MOLLUSCA has 1 sense:

1. gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitonsplay

  Familiarity information: PHYLUM MOLLUSCA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PHYLUM MOLLUSCA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Mollusca; phylum Mollusca

Hypernyms ("phylum Mollusca" is a kind of...):

phylum ((biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes)

Meronyms (members of "phylum Mollusca"):

mollusc; mollusk; shellfish (invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell)

class Scaphopoda; Scaphopoda (small class of bilaterally symmetrical marine forms comprising the tooth shells)

class Gasteropoda; class Gastropoda; Gasteropoda; Gastropoda (snails and slugs and their relatives)

class Polyplacophora; Polyplacophora (small class of marine mollusks comprising the chitons; sometimes considered an order of the subclass Amphineura)

Bivalvia; class Bivalvia; class Lamellibranchia; class Pelecypoda; Lamellibranchia (oysters; clams; scallops; mussels)

Cephalopoda; class Cephalopoda (octopuses; squids; cuttlefish; pearly nautilus)

Holonyms ("phylum Mollusca" is a member of...):

animal kingdom; Animalia; kingdom Animalia (taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals)


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