gasteropod
Britishnoun
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It is not settled whether the back of a cuttle-fish answers to the dorsal or ventral surface of a gasteropod.
From Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work by P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers) Mitchell
Whorl, a single coil in the spire of a gasteropod shell.
From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Frederic Lucas
A conch-shell twenty inches long and ten in diameter will do for a sample—not a small gasteropod!
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various
This clay from the Amazon, as examined microscopically by Prof. H. James Clark, contains fragments of gasteropod shells and bivalve casts.
From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by James Orton
Spire, the coiled portion of a gasteropod shell.
From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Frederic Lucas
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