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molluscan

molluscan adjective: pertaining to molluscs.

Adjective

molluscan (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to molluscs.
    • There are various ways of dealing with the fact that you are suddenly surrounded by creature who can see and would like to eat you, but one way, a molluscan specialty, is to grow a hard shell and live within or beneath it.2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins, published 2018, page 45

Noun

molluscan (plural molluscans)

  1. A mollusc.

Forms of molluscan

pluralmolluscans

Origin of molluscan

From phylum name Mollusca + -an.

Words formed from molluscan

Questions about molluscan

What does molluscan mean?
Molluscan means pertaining to molluscs.
What part of speech is molluscan?
Molluscan can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near molluscan in the dictionary

  1. mollusc
  2. mollusca
  3. molluscacidal
  4. molluscacide
  5. molluscacides
  6. molluscan
  7. molluscans
  8. molluscicidal
  9. molluscicide
  10. molluscicided
  11. molluscicides

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