mollusc

See also mol·lusc

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• (US) mollusk

Etymology

From French mollusque, from New Latin Mollusca (phylum name), from Latin molluscus (“thin-shelled”), from mollis (“soft”); see Proto-Indo-European *mel-.

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: mŏl'əsk, IPA: /ˈmɒləsk/, X-SAMPA: /"mQl@sk/
• (US) enPR: mäl'əsk, IPA: /ˈmɑːləsk/, X-SAMPA: /"mA:l@sk/

Noun

mollusc (plural molluscs)

1. A soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically with a hard shell of one or more pieces.
2. (figuratively) A weak-willed person.

Translations

soft-bodied invertebrate of phylum Mollusca

• Arabic: رخوي (ar) (ríkhwiy) m
• Armenian: փափկամորթ (hy) (p’ap’kamort’)
• Asturian: moluscu (ast) m
• Belarusian: малюск (be) (maljúsk) m
• Breton: blotvil (br)
• Bulgarian: молуска (bg) (molúska) f, мекотело (bg) (mekotélo) n
• Catalan: mol·lusc (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軟體動物 (cmn), 软体动物 (cmn) (ruǎntǐ dòngwù)

• Czech: měkkýš (cs) m
• Dutch: weekdier (nl) n, mollusk (nl)
• Esperanto: molusko (eo)
• Finnish: nilviäinen (fi)
• French: mollusque (fr)
• Galician: molusco (gl) m
• German: Weichtier (de) n, Molluske (de) f
• Greek: μαλάκιο (el) (malákio) n
• Hungarian: puhatestű (hu)
• Icelandic: lindýr (is) n

• Ido: molusko (io)
• Italian: mollusco (it) m
• Japanese: 軟体動物 (ja) (なんたいどうぶつ, nantai-dōbutsu)
• Korean: 연체 동물 (ko) (yeonche dongmul) (軟體動物 (ko))
• Lithuanian: moliuskas (lt) m, minkštakūnis (lt) m
• Polish: mięczak (pl) m
• Portuguese: molusco (pt) m
• Romanian: moluscă (ro) f
• Russian: моллюск (ru) (molljúsk) m, мягкотелый (ru) (mjaxkotélyj) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мекушац (sh) m

  Roman: mekušac (sh) m

• Slovak: mäkkýš (sk) m
• Slovene: mehkužec (sl) m
• Spanish: molusco (es) m
• Swedish: blötdjur (sv) n
• Turkish: yumuşakça (tr)
• Ukrainian: молюск (uk) (moljúsk) m
• Vietnamese: động vật thân mềm (vi)

References

• Mollusca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Mollusca
• “mollusc” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• “mollusc” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• "mollusc" in On-line Medical Dictionary, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1997–2005.
• "mollusc" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.