喜樂美語
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    A mollusc is an animal with a soft body. Many — snails, clams, oysters — have a hard shell covering that body, and that is the picture most school books give you. Though actually, the group is wider than “shell on the outside.” An and a are molluscs too, and a slug is a mollusc with no shell you can pick up. Some have only a small shell hidden inside. It is a biology word, not a dinner-table word, though people eat many molluscs. The spelling mollusc is the usual British one; American English almost always mollusk. In Taiwan school science you will see 軟體動物 either way. Do not stretch it to mean any sea creature: a fish is not a mollusc, and a crab is not one either.

    軟體動物（英式拼法；美式常寫 mollusk）

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    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成Borrowed from French mollusque, from New Latin Mollusca (the phylum name), from Latin molluscus (“thin-shelled”), from mollis (“soft”).

同家族的字

  • molluscanthe adjective (and sometimes noun) from the same animal group
  • mollifyboth go back to Latin mollis, “soft”

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

molluscnoun/ˈmɒləsk/

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    A soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically with a hard shell of one or more pieces.

    • bivalve molluscs
    • For example, the antitumour depsipeptide kahalalide F was isolated from the opisthobranch mollusc Elysia rufescens, and is used by both the mollusc and its dietary alga Bryopsis spp.
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    A weak-willed person.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。