Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a mollusk; molluscan or molluscous.
- Specifically, as much like a mollusk as a brachiopod or a moss-animal is; pertaining to the Molluscoidea, or having their characters.
- noun An animal of the group Molluscoidea in any sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Resembling the true mollusks; belonging to the Molluscoidea.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Resembling the true
mollusks ; belonging to the Molluscoidea. - noun zoology Any of the Molluscoidea.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The next molluscoid find was a cluster of eggs hidden likewise under the fallen leaves.
Yesterday morning in the woods AYDIN 2007
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The next molluscoid find was a cluster of eggs hidden likewise under the fallen leaves.
Archive 2007-11-01 AYDIN 2007
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We are so inveterately wedded to the conceptual decomposition of life that I know that this will seem to you like putting muddiest confusion in place of clearest thought, and relapsing into a molluscoid state of mind.
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876
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These can include loose/unstable joints which are prone to frequent dislocations, joint pain, fragile skin that bruises or tears easily, severe scarring, slow and poor wound healing, development of fleshy lesions (molluscoid pseudo tumors), chronic debilitating musculoskeletal pain, poor muscle tone, and gum disease.
Emaxhealth 2009
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