limax

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noun

A slug or slug-like creature.

Scrabble 14
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Meanings

noun
  1. obsoletebiologyA slug or slug-like creature.

    The Cylindrus is a simple shell, without a hinge, formed of one continued piece, and of a figure approaching to a cylinder […]. The animal inhabiting the Cylindrus is a limax.

    1752, John Hill, A General Natural History, page 141
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