milacid

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Noun

milacid (plural milacids)

  1. (zoology) Any member of the family Milacidae of slugs.
    • 2004, G. M. Barker, Natural Enemies of Terrestrial Molluscs, page 299:
      The buccal mass in milacids is spheroidal, and contains an oxygnathic jaw.
    • 2010, Comprehensive Natural Products II: Chemistry and Biology, page 392:
      Chemically unknown tissue toxins from internal organs that may kill Pterostichus carabids are uniquely known from the milacid slug Tandonia budapestensis, which shows an aposematic coloration (orange dorsal line).
    • 2012, A. South, Terrestrial Slugs: Biology, ecology and control, page 110:
      The atrium is a simple structure in the Limacidae and in Milacidae but in some milacid slugs it is equipped with a stimulator (see Section 5.1.7) and, in most milacids, accessory or atrial glands open into the atrium.

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