Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to the mollusks.
  • noun A mollusk.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Soft-bodied; pertaining to the Mollusca in any sense, or having their characters; molluscoid; malacozoic: as, a molluscan type.
  • noun A mollusk; a shell-fish; any member of the Mollusca, Molluscoidea, or Malacozoa.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to mollusks.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Relating to mollusks.
  • noun A mollusk.

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Examples

  • I content myself in knowing that at SDOT's current molluscan pace the Seattle Master Bicycle Plan will be fully implemented in the fullness of time -- i.e., in about 60 years.

    Mapping Seattle’s Bicycling Future « PubliCola 2010

  • At the molluscan pace at which SDOT is proceeding to implement the Seattle Bicycle Master Plan, the vast majority of us will be dead before city has a connected network of actual bike TRAILS.

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  • From the announcement: This one-day gathering is designed to facilitate contact among professional, amateur, and student malacologists who are interested in any aspect of molluscan biology.

    Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009

  • Absence of proof failed to faze Alobar, however, since, thanks to the Bandaloop, he had witnessed three hundred and eighty-five thousand, eight hundred and six sunrises in his life, and judging from the milky molluscan glow seeping through the barred window, was about to witness yet another.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • From the announcement:This one-day gathering is designed to facilitate contact among professional, amateur, and student malacologists who are interested in any aspect of molluscan biology.

    Mark your calendars: 11th Meeting of MAM AYDIN 2009

  • Glenn Robert Webb (1918-1999), his molluscan taxa, and his journal Gastropodia (1952-1994).

    Archive 2008-02-01 AYDIN 2008

  • This one-day gathering is designed to facilitate contact among professional, amateur, and student malacologists who are interested in any aspect of molluscan biology.

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  • This one-day gathering is designed to facilitate contact among professional, amateur, and student malacologists who are interested in any aspect of molluscan biology.

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  • The recent molluscan marine fauna of Isla de Malpelo, Colombia.

    Malpelo Island Flora and Fauna Sanctuary, Colombia 2008

  • The Koobi Fora deposits are rich in pre-human, mammalian, molluscan and other fossil remains and have contributed more to the understanding of palaeoenvironments than any other site on the continent.

    Lake Turkana National Parks, Kenya 2008

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