Terminology record for mollusk
RECORD
| Record No.: | 276/en/509 |
| Author: | ELAD D. F. |
| Creation date: | |
| Last updated: | 2023-09-16 00:00:00 |
| 🇫🇷 FRENCH | ||||||||||
| DOMAINE |
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| VEDETTE | * Mollusque statut : recommandé
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| PARTIE DU DISCOURS | nom masculin | |||||||||
| ÉTYMOLOGIE | Mollusque | |||||||||
| SOURCE DE L'ETYMOLOGIE |
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). Grand Robert de la langue française, en 6 volumes version 2.0 (2005). | |||||||||
| DÉFINITION |
embranchement du règne animal, qui comprend des métazoaires au corps mou et non segmenté, souvent recouvert d’une coquille calcaire | |||||||||
| PLURIEL | Mollusques ; | |||||||||
| SOURCE DE DÉFINITION | Fishterm | |||||||||
| 🇬🇧 ENGLISH | ||||||||||
| SUBJECT FIELD |
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| TERM | * Mollusk status: recommended
* mollusk (noun) status: accepted | |||||||||
| PART OF SPEECH | noun | |||||||||
| PLURAL | Molluscs ; Mollusks ; | |||||||||
| ETYMOLOGY | Borrowing from Classical French mollusque, ‘mollusc’; from scientific Latin Mollusca, ‘phylum of invertebrate animals, comprised of gastropods, cephalopods, bivalves, etc.’; from Classical Latin molluscus, ‘with a soft shell’; from Classical Latin mollis, ‘soft’. | |||||||||
| ETYMOLOGY SOURCE |
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). | |||||||||
| DEFINITION |
any of the invertebrate animals in the phylum Mollusca that have soft, unsegmented bodies and often live in water and have external shells. | |||||||||
| DEFINITION SOURCE |
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). | |||||||||
| Notes |
BrE: Molluc; AmE: mollusk
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