gasteropod
Britishnoun
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Reptant, rep′tant, adj. crawling: pertaining to the Reptantia, those gasteropod mollusca adapted for crawling.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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 Mitchell, P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers)
He is a mule, a dead gasteropod, without vim or stamina, not worth a cracked kreutzer.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
Nerite, nē′rīt, n. a gasteropod of the genus Nerita or the family Neritid�.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 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 Orton, James
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