limacine

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limacine (LIM-uh-seen, LIM-uh-sin, LAI-muh-seen) - adj., of, pertaining to, or resembling a slug.


Sluglike. Application to current events is left as an exercise for the reader. Coined in the 1880s from Latin līmāx, slug/snail, related to līmus, slime (from PIE root *lei-/*slei-, slimy).

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