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molluscous

[ mə-lŭs′kəs ]

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adj.

Of, relating to, or resembling molluscum.

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Words nearby molluscous

mollisol, mollities, mollusc, Mollusca, molluscoid, molluscous, molluscum, molluscum contagiosum, mollusk, mollusks, Mollweide projection

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How to use molluscous in a sentence

Large jars were filling apace with the bodies of rare birds, fishes, quadrupeds and reptiles, as well as molluscous animals.
Audubon and his Journals, Vol. 2|Maria R. Audubon
In estuaries it feeds on crustaceous and molluscous animals and small fish, which it obtains by diving.
British Birds in their Haunts|Rev. C. A. Johns
Do visions of plump cabbages and brilliant dahlias flit through their molluscous minds?
In the West Country|Francis A. Knight
It has gone to record that the shell-fish of the Silurian system are the lowest division of the molluscous animals.
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 7, July, 1880|Various

An extremely light, cartilaginous covering of a molluscous animal, so named from its similarity in shape to a boat.
A Conchological Manual|George Brettingham Sowerby