Borrowed from French mollusque, from New Latin Mollusca (phylum name), from Latin molluscus (“thin-shelled”), from mollis (“soft”).
mollusc (plural molluscs)
- A soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically with a hard shell of one or more pieces.
- Hyponym: conchiferan
- bivalve molluscs
- (figuratively) A weak-willed person.
- Synonyms: little girl, nose of wax, pushover
- Abenaki: als
- Afrikaans: weekdier (af)
- Albanian: butak (sq) m
- Arabic: رِخْوِيّ m (riḵwiyy)
- Armenian: կակղամորթ (hy) (kakġamortʻ), մոլյուսկ (hy) (molyusk), փափկամորթ (hy) (pʻapʻkamortʻ)
- Asturian: moluscu (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: molyusk
- Belarusian: малю́ск m (maljúsk), мяккаце́лы m (mjakkacjély)
- Bengali: খোলকী (khōloki)
- Breton: blotvil (br)
- Bulgarian: мекоте́ло (bg) n (mekotélo)
- Burmese: ခရု (my) (hka.ru.)
- Catalan: mol·lusc (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 軟體動物／软体动物 (zh) (ruǎntǐ dòngwù)
- Czech: měkkýš (cs) m
- Danish: bløddyr (da) n, mollusk c
- Dutch: weekdier (nl) n, mollusk (nl)
- Esperanto: molusko (eo)
- Estonian: mollusk (et)
- Finnish: nilviäinen (fi)
- French: mollusque (fr)
- Galician: molusco (gl) m
- Georgian: მოლუსკი (molusḳi)
- German: Weichtier (de) n, Molluske (de) f
- Greek: μαλάκιο (el) n (malákio)
- Haitian Creole: molisc
- Hebrew: רַכִּיכָה (he) f (rakikhá)
- Hindi: सीप (hi) m (sīp), मोलस्क (molask)
- Hungarian: puhatestű (hu)
- Icelandic: lindýr (is) n
- Ido: molusko (io)
- Indonesian: moluska (id)
- Irish: moileasc m
- Italian: mollusco (it) m
- Japanese: 軟体動物 (ja) (なんたいどうぶつ, nantai dōbutsu)
- Kannada: ಮೃದ್ವಂಗಿ (kn) (mṛdvaṅgi)
- Kazakh: жұмсақденелі (jūmsaqdenelı)
- Khmer: ខ្យង (km) (khyɑɑng)
- Korean: 연체동물(軟體動物) (ko) (yeonchedongmul)
- Kyrgyz: моллюск (mollyusk)
- Lao: ຫອຽ, ຫອຍ, ສັງຂາ (sang khā)
- Latvian: molusks m, gliemis m
- Lithuanian: moliuskas (lt) m, minkštakūnis m
- Macedonian: мекотел m (mekotel)
- Malay: moluska
- Malayalam: മൊളസ്ക (moḷaska)
- Maori: kaiwhao
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: нальахн хорхой (nalʹaxn xorxoj)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bløtdyr n
- Occitan: molusc (oc) m
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: mięczak (pl) m
- Portuguese: molusco (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਮੋਲਸਕਾ (molsakā)
- Romanian: moluscă (ro) f
- Russian: моллю́ск (ru) m (molljúsk), мягкоте́лый (ru) m (mjaxkotélyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: меку́шац m
- Roman: mekúšac (sh) m
- Slovak: mäkkýš (sk) m
- Slovene: mehkužec (sl) m
- Spanish: molusco (es) m
- Swedish: blötdjur (sv) n, mollusk (sv) c
- Tagalog: molusk, kumabibi
- Tajik: моллюск (mollyusk)
- Thai: หอย (th) (hɔ̌i)
- Turkish: yumuşakça (tr)
- Turkmen: mollýusk
- Ukrainian: молю́ск m (moljúsk), м'якоті́лий m (mʺjakotílyj)
- Urdu: مولسک (molask)
- Uzbek: mollyusk
- Vietnamese: động vật thân mềm
- Walloon: molusse (wa) m
- Welsh: meddalog m
- Yiddish: מאָללוסק (mollusk)
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Mollusca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “mollusc”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “mollusc”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "mollusc" in On-line Medical Dictionary, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1997–2005.
- "mollusc" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
