"Molluscous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cygnet, ringdove[obs3], siskin, swan, wood pigeon. [undesirable animals] vermin, varmint[Western US], pest. Adj. animal, zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy; piscatory[obs3], piscatorial; molluscous[obs3], vermicular; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... Professor Owen, remains also occur in the Pampas of Buenos Ayres, and at Punta Alta) has been shown by satisfactory evidence of another kind, to have lived on the plains of Patagonia long after the period when the adjoining sea was first tenanted by its present commonest molluscous animals. We must, therefore, conclude that the Pampean formation belongs, in the ordinary geological sense of the word, to the Recent Period. (M. d'Orbigny believes "Voyage" Part. Geolog. page 81, that this formation, though "tres voisine de la notre, est neanmoins ...
— South American Geology - also: - Title: Geological Observations On South America • Charles Darwin |
