Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See
mollusca .
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- proper noun A taxonomic
class within thephylum Mollusca — thegastropods orunivalves .
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- noun snails and slugs and their relatives
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Examples
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The word Gastropoda is a combination of two Latin words that translate to mean "stomach" and "foot".
Mollusca 2007
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The word Gastropoda is a combination of two Latin words that translate to mean "stomach" and "foot".
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She doesn't yet have a name for the creature, but we have already determined that it's in the family Knittedae, superfamily Craftoidea, class Woolapoda, a sister group of the Gastropoda.
Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009
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I think the only info it can access on the topic of snails is the basic classification as Gastropoda and that's it.
Wolfram|Alpha fails to impress this blogger AYDIN 2009
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She doesn't yet have a name for the creature, but we have already determined that it's in the family Knittedae, superfamily Craftoidea, class Woolapoda, a sister group of the Gastropoda.
Evolutionary freaks or new species? AYDIN 2009
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Egg structure of some vertiginid species Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Vertiginidae.
Archive 2008-07-01 AYDIN 2008
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Egg structure of some vertiginid species Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Vertiginidae.
Which came first, the snail or the egg? AYDIN 2008
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Radiation of crenobiontic gastropods on an ancient continental island: The Hemistomia-clade in New Caledonia (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae).
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This species is notable for a hinged operculate flap attached to the main shell, a unique feature among the Gastropoda.
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A review of the rissoiform gastropods of southwestern South America (Mollusca, Gastropoda) (Contributions in science) by W. F Ponder
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