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pl. [Lat. mollusc ( a ) (q. v.), and Gr. eidos =form.? 1. Zool .: A primary division of Mollusca instituted by Milne Edwards, and in Profe or Huxley's cla ification, one of the eight primary groups into which he divides the animal kingdom. He places it between the Mollusca and the Coelenterata. The mouth is provided with ciliated tentacula, disposed in a circle or in a horseshoe shape, or fringing Molucca I. Ordinary Language: 1. Lit .: In the same sense as II. 1. 2. Fig .: Some dread or irresistible influence or pa ion, at the shrine of which everything would be sacrificed. II. Technically : exceedingly large pharynx, and in two or three the atrial system is greatly developed. Dr. Henry Woodward says that the Molluscoid a have the 1. Compar. Relig .: The distinctive idol of the Ammonites (1 Kings xi. 7). The commonest spelling of the word is Molech (Lev. xx. 2, 3, Jer. Moloch and Milcom are the same, cf. 1 Kings xi. 5,7. The Malcham of Zeph. 1,5 much resembles Milcom: in Hebrew it means "their king." Per body, with shells placed differently to those of the haps it means Molech in 2 Sam. xii. 30, and Jer. Mollusca, or have a tubular or shell-like covering. xlix. 1, 3. Molech was the Ammonite fire-god. He The gills are more or le free or fringed with cilia, without the usual lamelle of the Mollusca, and they serve for the capture of food as well as for respira- tion; or there may be a crown of ciliated tentacles. had a connection with the planet Saturn (the Chiun (?) of Amos v. 26). Though the offering of children xx.2.3),it was introduced not later than the reign to Moloch was forbidden in the Mosaic law (Lev. These in their structures, embryonic and adult, Tunic at a. Prof. Huxley divides the Molluscoid a into three cla es: Ascidoida, Brachiopod a, and Polyzoa. (Introd. to Cla . Animals , 115, 116.) 2. Palæont.: Range from Cam brian' times till now. "He, however, thinks it not improbable that the mol luscoida may ultimately require to be merged in the mollusca."- Huxley: Introd. Cla . Animals,