molluscan
adjective, noun
molluscan is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to molluscs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-O-L-L-U-S-C-A-N, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does molluscan mean?
adjective
- 1
Pertaining to molluscs.
noun
- 1
A mollusc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of molluscan
- molluscans plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is molluscan?
Molluscan appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 94,827th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does molluscan come from?
From phylum name Mollusca + -an.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).