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mantleslug

noun

Etymology

From mantle + slug, because of the unusually large protective mantle.

  1. inherited from slugge — “lazy person", also "sloth, slothfulness”
  2. compounded as mantleslug — “mantle + slug”

Definitions

  1. Any of several air-breathing land slugs of the genera Philomycus or Pallifera.

    • Carolina mantleslug (Philomycus carolinianus) was recorded by Pearce, Nielsen and Rogers (1992) at Bad Gully, at the top of the escarpment above Beaver Basin in beech-sugar maple forest.

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