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molluscoid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mol-lus-coid
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

belonging to the former phylum Molluscoidea, which somewhat resembled mollusks.

Obsolete

noun

Any of the Molluscoidea.

Obsolete

Etymology

From taxonomic name Mollusca + -oid.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

more molluscoid (comparative) most molluscoid (superlative) molluscoids (plural)

Questions

What does molluscoid mean?
belonging to the former phylum Molluscoidea, which somewhat resembled mollusks.
Where does molluscoid come from?
From taxonomic name Mollusca + -oid.

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