a. [f. L. līmāc-, līmāx slug, snail + -EOUS (cf. -ACEOUS).] Pertaining to slugs or snails; snail-like; also, in mod. use, pertaining to the genus Limax of slugs.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Limaceous, snaily, snail-like.
1855. Mayne, Expos. Lex., Limaceus.… Applied by Mencke to a Family … of the Gasteropoda cœlopnœa, having the Limax for their type: limaceous.
1861. Wilson & Geikie, Mem. E. Forbes, xiv. 490. Delicacies suited to the limaceous appetite. [In mod. Dicts.]
