coat-of-mail shell vs mollusk

coat-of-mail shell and mollusk both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
coat-of-mail shell	Yes	No	No	No
mollusk	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mollusk is a hypernym of coat-of-mail shell; that is, mollusk is a word with a broader meaning than coat-of-mail shell:

coat-of-mail shell: primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates
mollusk: invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

Other hypernyms of coat-of-mail shell include mollusc, shellfish.

coat-of-mail shell (noun)	mollusk (noun)
primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates	invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell