molluscaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

mollusca pl (plural only)

1. Molluscs considered as a group.
   • 1851, S[amuel] P[ickworth] Woodward, “Classes of the Mollusca”, in A Manual of the Mollusca; or, A Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and Fossil Shells, London: John Weale, […], page 6:

     The mollusca are animals with soft bodies, enveloped in a muscular skin, and usually protected by a univalve or bivalve shell. […] The univalve mollusca are encephalous, or furnished with a distinct head; they have eyes and tentacula, and the mouth is armed with jaws.

   • 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Natural Selection”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 100:

     Turning for a very brief space to animals: on the land there are some hermaphrodites, as land-mollusca and earth-worms; but these all pair.

   • 1862, Arthur Lutze, translated by Charles J[ulius] Hempel, “[Appendix.] The Human Body”, in Manual of Homœopathic Theory and Practice. Designed for the Use of Physicians and Families., New York, N.Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.: […] William Radde, […], page 532:

     The amphibious animals are provided with special organs for the sense of smell, although a very delicate sense of smell is likewise met with among the crustacea, such as crabs, mollusca and insects.

   • 1886 July, Keswal [pseudonym; W. F. Sinclair], “Notes on the Waters of Western India. Part I.—‘British Deccan and Khandesh.’”, in R[obert] A[rmitage] Sterndale, E[dward] H[amilton] Aitken, editors, The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, volume I, number 3, Bombay: […] [T]he Education Society’s Press […], page 114:

     Probably frogs, crabs, mollusca, and insects form their chief diet; […]

   • 1910, Frank Leverett, Comparison of North American and European Glacial Deposits, Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, page 302:

     The löss fauna is largely of terrestrial mollusca, as in America, […]

   • 1940, Frank F[itch] Grout, “[The Sedimentary Rocks] Limestones”, in A Handbook of Rocks for Use Without the Petrographic Microscope, 6th edition, New York, N.Y.: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., […], page 169:

     The gentle slopes are favorable to the growth of various mollusca whose hard parts contribute additional material to the growing limestones.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 157:

     The mollusca, and testaceous animals in particular, have been considered to be of potency in an amatory sense.

   • 1964, V[alentine] J[ackson] Chapman, Coastal Vegetation, Oxford, Oxon; […]: Pergamon Press; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →LCCN, pages 16 and 31:

     On salt marshes, burrowing crabs, mollusca and annelids undoubtedly assist in aeration of the soil. […] One can, for example, make a study of the algae that occur on the shells of some of the larger mollusca or on barnacles.

発音

• mollusca:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA: [mɔlˈlʊs.ka]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [molˈlus.ka]
• molluscā:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA: [mɔlˈlʊs.kaː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [molˈlus.ka]