Mollusc
Crossword Clue and Answers

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CLAM
Flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams

SQUID
Widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins

WHELK
Large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell

SNAIL
Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell

LIMPET
Any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas

COCKLE
Common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs

TEREDO
Typical shipworm

MUSSEL
Marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc.

OYSTER
Edible body of any of numerous oysters

SCALLOP
Edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions

MOLLUSK
Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

OCTOPUS
Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles

NAUTILUS
Cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions

GASTROPOD
A class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes

SHELLFISH
Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

PERIWINKLE
Commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers