Definition of Limacidae

1. Noun. Slugs.

Exact synonyms: Family Limacidae
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Family
Group relationships: Class Gasteropoda, Class Gastropoda, Gasteropoda, Gastropoda
Member holonyms: Genus Limax, Limax, Slug

Lexicographical Neighbors of Limacidae

Lillie's sulfuric acid Nile blue stain
Lillie Langtry
Lilliput
Lilliputian
Lilly
Lillyan
Lillyanne
Lilo
Lilongwe
Lily
Lily of the Valley
Lilyan
Lilyann
Lima
Lima wood
Limacidae
Liman
Limanda
Limanda ferruginea
Limans
Limbu
Limburg
Limburgan
Limburger
Limburger cheese
Limburgian
Limburgic
Limburgish
Lime disease spirochete

Literary usage of Limacidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Zoe: A Biological Journal by Townshend Stith Brandegee, Katharine Layne Brandegee (1891)
"In the Manual of American Land Shells, Mr. Binney describes the animal of the family Selenites " Without a caudal mucus pore, jaw of limacidae. ..."

2. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"limacidae. Slugs. No external shell present, but a rudimentary shell in form of a thin calcareous ... Key to the genera of limacidae here described: a, ..."

3. Fauna Hawaiiensis: Being the Land-fauna of the Hawaiian Islands by David Sharp, Royal Society (Great Britain), Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Royal Society (Great Britain (1900)
"... but, owing to the fauna being so restricted in distribution, have not added percentages of peculiar species. (i) Families limacidae ..."

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