gasteropod
Britishnoun
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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
Her′mitāge, Her′mitary, the dwelling of a hermit: a retired abode: a wine produced near Valence, in Dr�me; Her′mit-crab, the name of a family of crustaceans notable for their habit of sheltering themselves in gasteropod shells.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
He is a mule, a dead gasteropod, without vim or stamina, not worth a cracked kreutzer.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
Spire, the coiled portion of a gasteropod shell.
From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Lucas, Frederic
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)
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