Meanings
adjectivemolluscan (not comparable)
- not comparablePertaining to molluscs.First known use 19th c.
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
Origin
From phylum name Mollusca + -an.
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molluscan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/molluscan
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Chicago
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