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gasteropod

British  
/ ˈɡæstərəˌpɒd /

noun

  1. a variant of gastropod

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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 Orton, James

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

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)