limaceousadj.
/lʌɪˈmeɪʃəs/ Pertaining to slugs or snails; snail-like; also in modern use, pertaining to the genus Limax of slugs.In modern dictionaries.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [adjective] > belonging to order Pulmonifera > relating to slugs or snails
limaceous1656
limaciform1826
limacine1888
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [adjective] > belonging to order Pulmonifera > of or belonging to Inoperculata > of family Limacidae > relating to genus Limax
limaceous1855
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [adjective] > belonging to order Pulmonifera > of or belonging to Inoperculata > of family Limacidae > relating to slugs
limaciform1826
limaceous1861
limacine1888
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Limaceous, snaily, snail-like.
1855 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Limaceus... Applied by Mencke to a Family..of the Gasteropoda cœlopnœa, having the Limax for their type: limaceous.
1861 G. Wilson & A. Geikie Mem. E. Forbes xiv. 490 Delicacies suited to the limaceous appetite.
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