Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the mollusks.
- noun A mollusk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Soft-bodied; pertaining to the Mollusca in any sense, or having their characters; molluscoid; malacozoic: as, a molluscan type.
- noun A mollusk; a shell-fish; any member of the Mollusca, Molluscoidea, or Malacozoa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to mollusks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to
mollusks . - noun A
mollusk .
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Examples
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I content myself in knowing that at SDOT's current molluscan pace the Seattle Master Bicycle Plan will be fully implemented in the fullness of time -- i.e., in about 60 years.
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At the molluscan pace at which SDOT is proceeding to implement the Seattle Bicycle Master Plan, the vast majority of us will be dead before city has a connected network of actual bike TRAILS.
Regional Transportation Plan Pt. 2, in which I Complain a Little « PubliCola 2010
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From the announcement: This one-day gathering is designed to facilitate contact among professional, amateur, and student malacologists who are interested in any aspect of molluscan biology.
Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009
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Absence of proof failed to faze Alobar, however, since, thanks to the Bandaloop, he had witnessed three hundred and eighty-five thousand, eight hundred and six sunrises in his life, and judging from the milky molluscan glow seeping through the barred window, was about to witness yet another.
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From the announcement:This one-day gathering is designed to facilitate contact among professional, amateur, and student malacologists who are interested in any aspect of molluscan biology.
Mark your calendars: 11th Meeting of MAM AYDIN 2009
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Glenn Robert Webb (1918-1999), his molluscan taxa, and his journal Gastropodia (1952-1994).
Archive 2008-02-01 AYDIN 2008
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This one-day gathering is designed to facilitate contact among professional, amateur, and student malacologists who are interested in any aspect of molluscan biology.
10th meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Malacologists will be this Saturday AYDIN 2008
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This one-day gathering is designed to facilitate contact among professional, amateur, and student malacologists who are interested in any aspect of molluscan biology.
Mark your calendars: 10th Anniversary Meeting of MAM AYDIN 2008
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The recent molluscan marine fauna of Isla de Malpelo, Colombia.
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The Koobi Fora deposits are rich in pre-human, mammalian, molluscan and other fossil remains and have contributed more to the understanding of palaeoenvironments than any other site on the continent.
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