Mollusca

mol·lus·cum  (m-lskm)

n. pl. mol·lus·ca (-k)

Any of various skin diseases in which soft spherical tumors form on the face or other part of the body.

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[Latin, a kind of fungus, from neuter of molluscus, soft; see mollusk.]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

Mollusca - gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons phylum Mollusca animal kingdom, Animalia, kingdom Animalia - taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals mollusc, mollusk, shellfish - invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell class Scaphopoda, Scaphopoda - small class of bilaterally symmetrical marine forms comprising the tooth shells class Gasteropoda, class Gastropoda, Gasteropoda, Gastropoda - snails and slugs and their relatives class Polyplacophora, Polyplacophora - small class of marine mollusks comprising the chitons; sometimes considered an order of the subclass Amphineura Bivalvia, class Bivalvia, class Lamellibranchia, class Pelecypoda, Lamellibranchia - oysters; clams; scallops; mussels Cephalopoda, class Cephalopoda - octopuses; squids; cuttlefish; pearly nautilus phylum - (biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes