mollusc

• 軟体動物

スウェーデンの生物学者リンネが、貝類などの軟体動物門を指すためにラテン語を借用した。

mollusc

mollusc: [18] Etymologically, a mollusc is a ‘soft’ creature. The word comes ultimately from Latin molluscus ‘soft’, a derivative of mollis ‘soft’. In classical times it was used as a noun for various ‘soft’ things, such as a sort of thinshelled nut and a species of fungus that grew from maple trees, but its application to a range of invertebrate animals seems to have been introduced by the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus in the mid-18th century.

Latin mollis (source also of English mollify [15]) goes back ultimately to Indo-European *mel-, *mol-, *ml- ‘grind’, which also produced English meal ‘flour’, mill, and molar.
=> meal, melt, mild, mill, molar, mollify

mollusc (n.)

see mollusk.

1. There are two types of mollusc that are actively venomus.

毒素を随時放出する軟体動物が2種類ある。

2.The mollusc phylum includes all soft-bodied animals without backbones.

軟体動物門には脊椎のない軟体動物がすべて含まれる。

3.Embankment shell variety，mostly for the intertidal zone or shallow seabed sediment mollusc species present health.

堤には貝殻の種類が豊富で、潮間帯や浅海土砂海底軟体動物の現生種属が多い。