gastropod
noun
any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, comprising the snails, whelks, slugs, etc.
gastropodous
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a word derived from
gastropod.
Example Sentences
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Then he hove into sight—a gastropodous tub of a fellow, with a rascally red eye; and I shrank behind my curtains, for I never court parley with such gentlemen.
From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes
Equally efficacious might be the modern definition of the same creature as a "terrestrial, air-breathing, gastropodous mollusk."
From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence
