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limacine

limacine

9.9
Like a slug in shape or movement, soft and slow
  • adjective
  • Specialized
translation icon : limacino
  • The shell-less, limacine mollusk glided silently across the wet garden path.

Examples

  • The artist's sculpture had a limacine shape, soft and elongated like a slug.

  • Its movement was slow and limacine, leaving a slimy trail behind.

  • The limacine creature glided slowly across the wet ground.

  • Is that a limacine type of mollusk?

  • The artist's sculpture had a limacine shape, soft and elongated like a slug.

  • Its movement was slow and limacine, leaving a slimy trail behind.

  • The shell-less, limacine mollusk glided silently across the wet garden path.

Synonyms

limacoid
vslimacine
  • Specialized
9.9

Having the shape and feel of a slug

is broader, also meaning relating to slugs rather than only resembling them
sluglike
vslimacine
5.6

Looking or moving slowly like a garden snail

is more general, also covering relation or characteristics beyond movement

How Slug-Like

sluglike
5.6
limacine
  • Specialized
9.9
slimy
42 2.5
damp
11 1.0

Surface Forms

limacine positive

Morphology

limacine = slug (opaque) = limac + ine

The suffix '-ine' is a standard adjectival ending, but the root 'limac-' is a learned Latin combining form not recognisable to most learners, so the relation to 'slug' is not obvious.

Etymology

Limacine comes from the Latin word limax, which means 'slug', and the ending -ine, which means 'like'. So limacine describes something that is slug-like, slow and soft, often leaving a slimy trail.