molluscan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.00 in modern English

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"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."

From phylum name Mollusca + -an.

molluscans (plural)

intramolluscan

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