gasteropod
Britishnoun
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He is a mule, a dead gasteropod, without vim or stamina, not worth a cracked kreutzer.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
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
Whorl, a single coil in the spire of a gasteropod shell.
From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Lucas, Frederic
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
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