gasteropod
Britishnoun
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Dear Professor Pelseneer, I am very glad to hear from you that the homology of the cephalopod arms with the gasteropod foot is now generally admitted.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Leonard Huxley
Two days passed with no visible change; but on the third day the strange gasteropod unfolded both himself and the mystery.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various
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
Whorl, a single coil in the spire of a gasteropod shell.
From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Frederic Lucas
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
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