Word Meanings - MOLLUSCA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, PteropodaScaphopoda, and Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera. These animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired,

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One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, PteropodaScaphopoda, and Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera. These animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, but not repeated longitudinally. Most of them develop a mantle, which incloses either a branchial or a pulmonary cavity. They are generally more or less covered and protected by a calcareous shell, which may be univalve, bivalve, or multivalve. Note: Formerly the Brachiopoda, Bryzoa, and Tunicata were united with the Lamellibranchiata in an artificial group called Acephala, which was also included under Mollusca. See Molluscoudea.

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• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• GASTROPODA
  One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually
• GRANDIFIC
  Making great. Bailey.
• PAIRER
  One who impairs. Wyclif.
• ANIMALCULIST
  1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
• GRANDILOQUENT
  Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
• ANIMAL
  1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
• GRANDNESS
  Grandeur. Wollaston.
• GRANDILOQUENCE
  The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. Thackeray,
• THESE
  The plural of this. See This.
• GRANDILOQUOUS
  Grandiloquent.
• GRANDNEPHEW
  The grandson of one's brother or sister.
• PAIR
  In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion. Note: Pairs are named in accordance with the kind of motion they permit; thus, a journal and its bearing form a turning pair, a
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• DESPAIRING
  Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless. -- De*spair"ing*ly, adv. -- De*spair"ing*ness, n.
• APPAIR
  To impair; to grow worse.
• SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT
  The aggrandizement of one's self.
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• THERMOELECTRIC COUPLE; THERMOELECTRIC PAIR
  A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.