Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A subkingdom or branch of the animal kingdom related to the Mollusca proper, constituted by Henri Milne-Edwards in 1844 for certain animals which had before been included in Mollusca.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of Invertebrata which includes the classes Brachiopoda and Bryozoa; -- called also
Anthoid Mollusca .
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One family of worms already had gills, yet it was only upon the appearance of the molluscoidea that such organs for breathing were always present.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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