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molluscous, a.|məˈlʌskəs|
[f. L. mollusc-us (see Mollusca, molluscum) + -ous.]
1. Of or belonging to the Mollusca.
1813Bakewell Introd. Geol. 179 Moluscous animals of a particular species. 1816Bingley Useful Knowl. III. 13 Molluscous Worms are simple animals, without shell, and furnished with limbs, as the cuttle fish, medusæ, star-fish, and sea-urchins. 1840Chamb. Jrnl. No. 438. 174/3 The snail belongs to the Molluscous division of the animal kingdom. 1886Gentl. Mag. Apr. 407 Now that oysters are so dear..we should look around for some molluscous substitute.
2. fig. esp. in the sense of ‘flabby’, ‘invertebrate’.
1873W. S. Mayo Never Again xxix, Reclining in molluscous languor upon a mother-of-pearl reading-lounge, she seemed [etc.]. 1884Chr. World 28 Aug. 648/4 The molluscous might of China. 1886Manch. Exam. 9 Nov. 5/2 We may regard him as a fair type of Toryism in its present molluscous condition.
3. Path. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of molluscum.
1837London Med. Gaz. XIX. 860/2 The structure of the molluscous tubercles. 1885–8Fagge & Pye-Smith Princ. Med. (ed. 2) I. 112 The peculiar discoid shape of molluscous growths. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 824 Molluscous tumours.
Hence moˈlluscousness.
1870Contemp. Rev. XIV. 408 That ‘moral molluscousness’ which my Lord Elcho has had the good fortune to make into a proverb. |