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Definition of Mytiloid
1. a. Like, or pertaining to, the genus Mytilus, or family Mytilidæ.
Definition of Mytiloid
1. Adjective. (zoology) Resembling or relating to the genus ''Mytilus'' or family Mytilidae. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mytiloid
1. pertaining to Mytilus [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mytiloid
Literary usage of Mytiloid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"Again, tho only fossil shells collected by Mr. Stuart (though the precise latitude
and longitude aro unknown to me) are mytiloid and Mya-like forms, ..."
2. The Depths of the Sea: An Account of the General Results of the Dredging by Charles Wyville Thomson, William Benjamin Carpenter, John Gwyn Jeffreys (1874)
"... a curious little mytiloid shell-fish which makes and inhabits a delicate
flask-shaped tubo of foraminifera, •. ..."
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