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gasteropod

British  
/ ˈɡæstərəˌpɒd /

noun

  1. a variant of gastropod

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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 Huxley, Leonard

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

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)

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

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