Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having lungs or lunglike organs.
- adjective Of or belonging to a large group of gastropods having a cavity in the mantle that is used as a lung for breathing air and including the terrestrial snails and slugs, certain freshwater snails, and some marine species.
- noun A pulmonate gastropod.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having lungs, lung-sacs, or lung-like organs; pulmonary or pulmoniferous, as a mollusk or an arachnidan; pulmonated, as a vertebrate: distinguished from
branchiate and tracheate. - noun A member of the Pulmonata in either sense, as a snail or a spider.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having breathing organs that act as lungs.
- adjective Pertaining to the Pulmonata.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy having
lungs or similar organs - adjective biology of, relating to, or belonging to the
gastropod orderPulmonata (slugs andsnails ) - noun A
gastropod of the orderPulmonata
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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hernesheir commented on the word pulmonate
Dedicated to Mollusque: the Pulmonata, an order of snails that have developed a pallial lung and thus can breath air. The order includes many land and fresh-water families and a smattering of marine ones.
January 18, 2009