英语释义

1. any of a large phylum (Mollusca) of invertebrate animals (such as snails, clams, or squids) with a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a calcareous shell broadly shellfish

2. any one of a large group of animals (such as snails and clams) that have a soft body without a backbone and that usually live in a shell

3. an animal (as a clam, snail, or octopus) that lives mostly in water and has a soft body usually enclosed in a shell containing calcium

4. any invertebrate animal of the phylum Mollusca

片语

adlittoral mollusks浅水软体动物

marine mollusks海洋贝类

of mollusks头足

bivalve mollusks双壳贝类

benthic mollusks底栖软体动物

footed mollusks翼足类软体动物

edible mollusks食用贝类

mollusks polysaccharides贝类多糖

英汉例句

• once the chitons seemed relaxed, the team either placed a black disk directly above the mollusks or changed the color of the background screen from white to gray.

  当观察到这些石鳖已经进入放松状态时，研究团队会在它们上方直接放置一片黑色的圆盘，或者将荧屏的颜色由白色变暗到灰色。

• related to sea slugs, nudibranchs are shell-less mollusks that display some of the most vibrant colors found anywhere in nature.

  海兔和海蛞蝓是近亲，本身是一种无壳的软体动物，其身体能发出存在于自然界中大多数颜色鲜亮的光芒。

• the woods hole study found that many marine animals like mollusks and corals that build hard shells and skeletons are most at risk from this.

  伍兹霍尔海洋学研究所的研究发现，许多海洋动物，如生长硬壳和骨架的软体动物和珊瑚是最危险的。

• a survey of oyster habitats around the world has found that the succulent mollusks are disappearing fast and 85 percent of their reefs have been lost due to disease and over-harvesting.

  在世界范围内牡蛎栖息地的调查中，这种多肉多汁的软体类动物正以飞速消亡，与此同时由于病害与过量的捕捉85%的（牡蛎所赖以栖息的）群礁也在消亡。

• most of the fossils seen in paleozoic rocks are invertebrate animals lacking backbones, such as corals, mollusks and trilobites.

  大部分在古生代巖层中发现的化石都是没有脊骨的无脊椎动物，例如珊瑚、软体动物和三叶虫。

• this species prefers to stay near reefs or sandy shallows where they dig crustaceans and mollusks out of the substrate.

  它们喜欢待在礁石附近或者沙质的浅滩，因为在那里又很多的甲壳类动物和软体动物可以被挖出来，供它们大快朵颐。

• boys are made of errant amphibians, mollusks and puppy parts while girls are made of sugar and spice and all that「s nice.

  男孩是由爱捣乱的两栖动物、懒惰的软体动物和活泼的小狗组成的，而女孩是由糖、香料和其他一切美好的事物所组成的。

• the name oyster is used for a number of different groups of mollusks which grow for the most part in marine or brackish water (water that is saltier than fresh water but not as salty as sea water).

  牡蛎这个名字被用在许多不同种类的软体动物上，这些软体动物大多数是生长在海里和盐水（比淡水咸，比海水淡）中。

• we」re the only one that uses tools then—but that「s if you don」t count otters smashing mollusks with rocks or apes stripping leaves from twigs and using them to fish for termites.

  我们又自言是唯一会使用工具的——但是除非你不把水獭用石头打碎软体动物或类人猿用从小树枝上拔下来的叶子捕捉白蚁算在内。

• perhaps these mollusks are considered guilty by association, since they often appear in decadent restaurant meals that are overloaded with calories.

  也许这些软体动物被认为是有罪的，因为它们经常出现在含有过多卡路里的堕落饭店餐食中。

• the lionfish gorge on small fish, mollusks and invertebrates, enough to fill out to as much as 480 grams and decimate local populations on the coral reefs they inhabit.

  狮子鱼以小的鱼类，软体动物和无脊椎动物为食，足够将身体填至高达480克，在他们所居住的珊瑚礁大量杀死本地物种。

• fossil seashells trace the evolution of various mollusks throughmillions of years.

  贝壳化石见证了软体动物几百万年的进化史。

• a lavender-colored nudibranch feeds on hydroids near vatu-i-ra, fiji. related to sea slugs, nudibranchs are shell-less mollusks that display some of the most vibrant colors found anywhere in nature.

  薰衣草颜色的裸鳃以斐济vatu-i-ra附近的水螅虫作为饲料，与海蛞蝓有关的裸鳃是一种无壳的软体动物，可显示自然界里随处可见的一些最鲜明的色彩。

• this distinguishes them from mollusks and arthropods , in which this first opening becomes the animal's mouth .

  这与软体动物和节肢动物不同，它们的嘴是由第一个开口（胚孔）发育而成。。