different between mollusk vs cephalophore

English

Noun

mollusk (plural mollusks)

1. (American spelling) Alternative form of mollusc

References

• “mollusk”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “mollusk” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "mollusk" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Danish

Noun

mollusk c (singular definite mollusken, plural indefinite mollusker)

1. mollusc

Declension

References

• “mollusk” in Den Danske Ordbog

English

Etymology

From French céphalophore, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kephal?, “head”) + -phore, from Ancient Greek -????? (-phoros, “bearing”), a derivative of ???? (phér?, “I bear, I carry”)

Noun

cephalophore (plural cephalophores)

1. (Roman Catholicism) any of a group of saints depicted in art carrying heads in their hands.

   Similarly, it is clear that the whole company of martyrs, of whom legend relates that they carried their heads after death, the céphalophores, arose from a widely known form of iconography.

   Gordon Hall Gerould, Saints' Legends (1916), p. 51

   Likely referencing an article by Marcel Hébert, "Les martyrs céphalophores Euchaire, in Elophe et Libaire", in Revue de l'Université de Bruxelles, v. 19 (1914).

2. (obsolete) The family of mollusks with distinct heads.
3. (obsolete) The family of ventricose and filiform mushrooms.