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Molluscan   Listen
adjective
Molluscan  adj.  (Zool.) Of or pertaining to mollusks.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Molluscan" Quotes from Famous Books



... the fashion of that of its poor relation—that the one made a study in mud which the other reproduced in carbonate of lime. But the most curious fact is that a true mollusc (VERMETUS) so far departs from the fashion prevalent in the molluscan world of building a spiral shell, that after beginning one in proper spiral mode it elongates itself in vermiform manner and forms an irregular serpuloid tube on the surface of larger shells or stones just as the SERPULA does; so that without examination ...
— My Tropic Isle • E J Banfield



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