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Spell Bee Word: Mollusc

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What does mollusc mean?

Word: Mollusc

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Mollusc means a soft-bodied animal with no backbone, often protected by a hard shell; snails and oysters are molluscs.

How do you spell mollusc?

Syllables: mol - lusc

Tricky part: In British spelling the word ends in usc; the American spelling is mollusk.

Watch out for: mollasc, mollusce, mollusck

Memory tip: Close the word with sc, the same two letters that end disc.

Mollusc in a sentence

Example 1: A snail is a mollusc that carries its shell on its back.

Example 2: Pearls form inside oysters, which are molluscs.

Example 3: We found an empty mollusc shell on a beach in Cornwall.

Next steps

Fun Fact

Mollusc comes from a Latin word meaning soft, because of the animal's soft body. Squids are molluscs too, and the colossal squid is the heaviest animal without a backbone known to science.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) snale
b) octapus
c) mollusc
d) oister

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c) mollusc. Octopus, oyster and snail are each misspelt by a vowel or two.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The diver photographed a bright orange molusc clinging to the coral reef.

a) molusc
b) clinging
c) coral
d) diver

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a) molusc. Two l's sit together in mol-lusc.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

lucsmol

a) mollusc
b) muscle
c) column
d) scroll

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a) mollusc. Muscle and column look close, yet only mollusc takes both l's and the c with nothing added.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which creature belongs to the mollusc group?

a) a slug
b) a crab
c) a jellyfish
d) a starfish

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a) a slug

2. Which mollusc has no outer shell at all?

a) an octopus
b) a mussel
c) a clam
d) a snail

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a) an octopus

Associated Words

More Class 6 Summer Spell Bee words starting with mo: moratorium, motivate, monotonous, moreover

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