Word: mollusk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...richest member of his ancient family. Another is Roger Amory. the philosophical president of Consolidated Investment Trust. He lists his hobbies as books, walks and lying in the sun. wrote for his 25th Harvard Class (1910) Book: "I believe in the consanguinity and spiritual relationship of potentate and mollusk and in the infiniteness of the universe and the inflexibility of natural...
What the sampans go for is the trochus. The trochus or top shell is a marine rhipidoglossate mollusk with a multispiral operculum. Its shell is a simple cone and snail-wise it carries it on its back as it moves slowly along in shallow water. The shell is good for buttons, cheaper than pearl shell...
Councillor Henri Espadrille (consulting a dictionary): "The snail is a castropod mollusk, or shellfish (which are not fish), like the whelk, the slug, the mussel, the limpet, the oyster. Messieurs, we can regulate the snail as seafood, for he is really an oyster...
Whispering reporters discovered that a "spatfall" is a crop of oysters larvae; that the slipper limpet, a small marine gastropod mollusk with only one valve, dearly loves to feed on the tender young of British oysters...