🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

软体动物

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ruǎntǐ dòngwù

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Mollusk/ˈmɒl.əsk/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"章鱼是一种海洋软体动物。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

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As noun
  1. 1

    An invertebrate of a large phylum which includes snails, slugs, mussels, and octopuses, typically having a soft unsegmented body enclosed in a shell.

    "Octopuses and squids are intelligent marine mollusks without external shells."

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Early 19th century: from modern Latin Mollusca (neuter plural of medieval Latin molluscus 'soft', based on Latin mollis 'soft'), so named because of the soft body.

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