Definition of Molluscan

1. a. Of or pertaining to mollusks.

Definition of Molluscan

1. Adjective. Relating to mollusks. ¹

2. Noun. A mollusk. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Molluscan

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Molluscan

1. Of or pertaining to mollusks. A mollusk; one of the Mollusca. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Molluscan

mollifier
mollifiers
mollifies
mollify
mollifying
mollifyingly
mollipilose
mollisol
mollisols
mollities
mollitude
molls
mollusc
mollusca
molluscacides
molluscan (current term)
molluscan catch muscle
molluscans
molluscicidal
molluscicide
molluscicides
molluscivore
molluscivores
mollusclike
molluscoid
molluscoidal
molluscoidea
molluscoids
molluscous

Literary usage of Molluscan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1895)
"The Southern Character of the molluscan Fauna of th« Coralline Crag tested by an ... The practical identity thus shown between the molluscan fauna of the ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1887)
"REMARKS ON THE molluscan FOSSILS OF THE NEW JERSEY MARL BEDS, CONTAINED IN VOLS. ... GIVES a summary of the molluscan fauna of the several beds of the marls ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"These graptolite beds are well demarcated from the molluscan and brachiopod limestones and while they occur between the latter at various horizons ..."

4. Cements, Limes, and Plasters: Their Materials, Manufacture, and Properties by Edwin Clarence Eckel (1922)
"Most molluscan shells consist essentially of lime carbonate, with commonly very small percentages (less ... TABLE 31. ANALYSES OF VARIOUS molluscan SHELLS. ..."

5. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1887)
"REMARKS ox THE molluscan FOSSILS OF THE NEW JERSEY MARL BEDS, CONTAINED IN VOLS. ... GIVES a summary of the molluscan fauna of the several beds of the marls ..."

6. Geological Biology: An Introduction to the Geological History of Organisms by Henry Shaler Williams (1895)
"molluscan Type of Structure.—The third type is that in which neither metameric nor ... —In the molluscan type is seen in its simplest form that relative ..."

7. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1873)
"V.—Ox THE molluscan FAUNA OF THE LATER TERTIARY OF PERU.* By EDWARD T. NELSON, Ph.D. THE following pages give the results of an examination of a collection ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Molluscan on Dictionary.com!Search for Molluscan on Thesaurus.com!Search for Molluscan on Google!Search for Molluscan on Wikipedia!

Search