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from The Century Dictionary.
- Having posterior lungs: applied to those pulmonale gastropods in which the pulmonary sac is posterior, the ventricle of the heart anterior, the auricle posterior, and the pallial region small: the opposite of
prosopulmonate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having the pulmonary sac situated posteriorly; -- said of certain air-breathing Mollusca.
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hernesheir commented on the word opisthopulmonate
A term for you, mollusque.
January 7, 2013