molluscum
noun
any of various skin conditions characterized by soft, rounded tumors.
molluscous
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a word derived from
molluscum.
Example Sentences
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It has gone to record that the shell-fish of the Silurian system are the lowest division of the molluscous animals.
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 7, July, 1880 by Aaron Walker
Here they were long rolled together with the bones of large mammalia, fishes, and with the shells of molluscous creatures that lived in shells.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
An extinct and very numerous genus of the order of molluscous animals called Cephalopoda, allied to the modern genus Nautilus, which inhabited a chambered shell, curved like a coiled snake.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
With respect to the land Planariae, unquestionably they are not molluscous animals.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
A class of molluscous animals, having their organs of motion arranged round their head.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
