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• Malakia
  Classical definition of effeminacy
  
  In Ancient Greece society, effeminacy was a term applied to men who were perceived as having the quality of unmanliness, softness or delicacy, shown by moral weakness, cowardice or a lack of perseverance....
   "softness" is the Classical Greek term for effeminacy
  Effeminacy
  
  Effeminacy describes having traits that are more often associated with traditional femininity gender roles rather than masculinity roles.It is a term frequently applied to femininity; or womanly behavior, demeanor, and appearance displayed by a man, typically used implying criticism or ridicule of this behavior ....
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• Malakas
  Malakas
  
  Malakas is a slang word, whose literal translation is wanker but the usage of the term varies widely from the equivalent British English term. A more appropriate rendering covers a much broader spectrum of applications, including both English equivalents of arsehole or jerk or wiktionary:dick or Bitch#Son of a bitch, and the contrasting frie...
   is the term for "wanker" in modern Greek.
• "Malacology
  Malacology
  
  Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology which deals with the study of mollusks, the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods....
  " is the study of the invertebrate
  Invertebrate
  
  An invertebrate is an animal lacking a vertebral column. The group includes 98% of all animal species ? all animals except those in the Chordate subphylum vertebrate ....
   phylum
  Phylum
  
  A phylum "Phylum" is adopted from the Greek phylai, the clan-based voting groups in Greek city-states. is a taxonomic rank below Kingdom and above Class ....
   “Mollusca
  Mollusca
  
  MolluscsSpelled mollusk in the USA; the spelling "mollusc" is preferred by some authors, see the reasons given by . are animals belonging to the Phylum Mollusca....
  ” which are “soft bodied” animal
  Animal
  
  Animals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the Kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life....
  s, although most also have shell
  Seashell
  
  A seashell, also known as a sea shell, or simply as a shell, is the common name for a hard, protective outer layer, a shell, or in some cases a "test", that was created by a sea creature, a Marine organism....
  s. It would not be the equivalent of Conchology
  Conchology
  
  Conchology is the science, semi-scientific, or amateur study of mollusc shell . In other words, it is the study of the exoskeletons of animals in the phylum Mollusca....
   since that word refers to the shell (conch
  Conch
  
  A conch is one of a number of different species of medium-sized to large saltwater snails or their shells.True conchs are Marine gastropod molluscs in the family Strombidae, and the genus Strombus....
  ) rather than the soft tissues.
• There is a Greek scientific “Malacological” journal which bears the name “Malakos”. There are also several shell collector websites which bear this name, one in Greece
  Greece
  
  Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
  , and other in Spain
  Spain
  
  Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
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See also

• Malacus
  Malacus
  
  Malacus may refer to:*Malacus synonym of adjective Malakos*Malacus or Malakos Macedonian Dolichos winner in Amphiareion of Oropos 329 BC*Malacus a Greek historian, the author of a work entitled Sifnos oroi which is quoted by Athenaeus ....